Coloring changes between 0.3.2 and 0.4.0?

[scottchiefbaker]

On Linux using the 0.3.2 and 0.4.0 binary releases from Github produce different colors in the output. My rg alias is:

alias rg='rg --smart-case --colors line:fg:yellow --colors path:fg:green'

Note the green and yellow are darker, and the red is brighter. Did the spec for --colors change between versions? I don't see any mention of this in the docs. Perhaps this is somehow related to #182?

[BurntSushi]

The spec for --colors did not have any breaking changes, but it does look like I missed commit b187c1 from the CHANGELOG.

Firstly, the default colors/styles changed. File paths went from green to magenta, line numbers went from blue to green and matches stayed as red. Both paths and line numbers are no longer bolded, but matches remain bolded. This color scheme generally matches GNU grep's color scheme.

Secondly, I fixed a bungling of intense colors. Namely, if a bold color was specified, then an intense color was used instead of emitting the bold ANSI escape sequence. Therefore, I added a new style intense to distinguish between the colors.

You can try fiddling with intensity and boldness like this:

$ rg --colors path:style:intense --colors line:style:bold