Suggestion: Automatic pretty printing if stdout is a tty about jo HOT 4 CLOSED

I dunno. From my POV, jo is meant to [a] be simple, and [b] generate machine-readable output by default, while making concessions to human readability on the rare occasion it's needed.

It's also mildly annoying to do the following dance:

$ jo <something_that_generates_copious_output>
# ARGH! A thousand lines of pretty-printed text!
$ jo <something_that_generates_copious_output> | less
# ARGH! Everything's squished together!
$ jo -p <something_that_generates_copious_output> | less

So yeah, I'd much rather have jo not guess what kind of output I want.

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I agree with @gromgit. At best we could introduce an environment variable (JO_PRETTY) which, when set to 1 or true or something, would automate pretty-printing, but that's likely also overkill as you can easily do this with a small script.

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I think we can add -pretty command line option rather than environment variables. It is a long option so it won't be mistaken, instead of something like -p.

from jo.

-p already exists; there is no need to make a long option of it.

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