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Can you suggest a better default color configuration for ripgrep? We actually already have different default colors for Windows as opposed to unix.[1]

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/acf226c39d7926425...



After some time of experimenting with this. I probably can't recommend any colors.

The issue I've found is that of the 16 build in colors. cmd defaults to trivial colors. (eg Blue is 000080 and Bright blue is 0000FF.)

Which give terrible contrast. MS seems to be working on improving things on their end. Then I'll be able to make it readable. (Eg: https://github.com/Microsoft/console/tree/master/tools/Color...)




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