choosing an option with arrow keys if there's only two options very confusing about cli-ui

[lugray]

There is already a blue > character on the selected option. You may need to adjust your terminal background color, or the true colour of the ANSI colours used to make sure they all have sufficient contrast in your terminal configuration.

[exterm]

🤔 My background color is pure black. I don't think that's very unusual? The arrow (which I only saw now, after you mentioned it exists) is really dark blue. May I request using a lighter blue (like the blue used for the word "yes")?

[exterm]

Also, I don't have any fancy terminal config AFAIK - is it supposed to look like this?

[lugray]

No. The ANSI colours that dev uses should be user configured to have good contrast with whatever background you also configure. A lighter colour will have less good contrast with a light background.

If you use iterm, that configuration can be done under Profiles > Colors.

[burke]

So, we do actually in most cases use the "bright blue" (\x1b[94m) colour instead of "blue" (\x1b[34m) for this reason: the default, unconfigured macOS terminal has an absolutely terrible choice for the default blue-on-black.

I think we should probably use bright blue consistently.

[lugray]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay. I'm not a huge fan of restricting ourselves from using one of the 16 ANSI colours, but it seems I'm in a minority here.

[exterm]

Thank you!

[burke]

Yeah, it took me a while to convince myself that this is not, in fact, the hill for me to die on. macOS just did/does this poorly and we have limited access to reconfigure this for people.