no_color VS erdtree

This sounds like a really good pattern, and something that deserves to become a modern standard (like https://no-color.org/).

I feel like this should be made opt in somehow. If you are a noninteractive process and stdin is a tty then you probably shouldn't be swallowing input. I frequently blind-type the next command while a long running command is active, because well behaved noninteractive programs don't swallow input from stdin.

Does this support the environment variable for NO_COLOR too? https://no-color.org/

Some of us prefer tools which work best without them.

Allow me to repeat my plea for CLI developers to take a little time to read https://no-color.org and ensure their programs honor things like NO_COLOR, npm config set color false, TERM=dumb, INSIDE_EMACS etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017940

Change: [#1908] Detects if terminal is VT100 capable and uses colors for the output, can be disabled using NO_COLOR.

Why not let termenv do the hard part of making this portable across terminals? It also supports lesser-known conventions like NO_COLOR.

The most substantial project that I have to show for my knowledge of the lower level topics is this project I work on in my spare-time called erdtree and I'm really banking on that to stand-in as "experience" in the absence of professional systems experience.

I'm working on this little project called erdtree and could use a bit of help adding information about file owners and permissions for the windows build if you're interested. No worries if not :)

I actually do put my main function in the middle

User feedback really helps drive erdtree's development so happy to accept input if you have any! And yeah et became erd because of name clashes with a lot of other existing packages.

I'm a self-taught developer working professionally as a director of engineering who writes Rust on weekends. I've been using Rust now for a little over 2 years and am the author and maintainer of this little command-line tool called erdtree. Before I was a programmer I did extensive tutoring in various subjects like organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, calculus, etc..

Took a healthy break from this little open-source project I've been iterating on.. ready to get back to it this weekend :]

I personally use erdtree, it even uses icons to differentiate various kinds of files

Here’s a project that I work on in my spare time. I initially worked on a very bare bones version on a 6-hour plan ride back in spring of 2022 because I was bored and wanted to work on something challenging without the need for internet. After two days I posted a naive version onto GitHub and after like 6 months it got around 100 stars on GitHub so I then decided to give it special attention in January of this year and have been iterating on it since.