Color Extension
This extension is distributed with Mercurial.
Author: Kevin Christen
Overview
This extension modifies the status command to add color to its output to reflect file status, and the qseries command to add color to reflect patch status (applied, unapplied, missing). Other effects in addition to color, like bold and underlined text, are also available. Effects are rendered with the ECMA-48 SGR control function (aka ANSI escape codes). This module also provides the render_text function, which can be used to add effects to any text.
Configuration
Configure your .hgrc to enable the extension by adding the following lines:
[extensions] color =
Default effects my be overriden from the .hgrc file:
[color] status.modified = blue bold underline red_background status.added = green bold status.removed = red bold blue_background status.deleted = cyan bold underline status.unknown = magenta bold underline status.ignored = black bold
'none' turns off all effects:
status.clean = none status.copied = none
qseries can be customized in a similar way:
qseries.applied = blue bold underline qseries.unapplied = black bold qseries.missing = red bold
Discussion
The default colors are a bit painful to read for me, so I modified them to the following:
[color] status.modified = magenta bold status.added = green bold status.removed = red bold status.deleted = cyan bold status.unknown = blue bold status.ignored = black bold
Mainly I removed the color backgrounds and made the info which is most important for me stand out the most:
1. modified 2. deleted 3. removed
I normally have temporary files in my dirs, so "unknown" shouldn't stand out for me (as it does in magenta), I don't know if that applies to most people.
Besides: "black bold" is in grey for me (which is good).