FORCE_COLOR value

[danielhollas]

Hi! 👋

Thanks for a great cookie, just used and it was very helpful!

I was excited to learn about FORCE_COLOR, however I am quite puzzled: why is set to value 3?
AFAIK setting it to 1 would work just as well and be less confusing?

[henryiii]

One library that I know of (one I wrote years ago, to be fair) - plumbum.colors - takes levels for FORCE_COLOR, with 1 being 8-color, 2 being 16-color, 3 being 256 color, and 4 being true color, based on the four ways to do ANSI codes. I've always hoped other libraries would pick up on that, so I've always set it to 3. As far as I know, most other libraries just care if it's either defend or set to any value.

[danielhollas]

Thank you for the reply! Makes sense. Leaving up to you if it is worth it to change to 1 to reduce potential confusion, feel free to close this issue. Regardless, might be nice to document this somewhere and link to the "standard". Cheers!