As I'm reporting a few Issues with agebox today, I find myself using screenshots rather than simply capturing the text output of the tool. This is because:

• the "normal" user interaction, at the shell, is via colorized logs
• diverting colorized output into a file, for copy'n'pasting here in github, includes color-related escape codes (yes, the're removable withsed/etc, but still ...)
• using the--no-color output option doesmore than simply stripping the color-related escape codes from the log output - it changes the logging format such that it's not representative of the "normal" user experience any longer.

Here's a screenshot :-)

This issomewhat annoying for filing github Issues.

But more than that, it stops a color-intolerant user (or build system, or script, etc etc) from being able to access the "normal"format of the logs.

Request: make--no-color do only the single job of not outputting color-related escape codes. Leave the log format modifications to other flags.