docs: Add documentation on the new -f colored option

pull/147/head
Adrien Vergé 6 years ago
parent 5062b91cac
commit 66adaee66c

@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ Errors and warnings
-------------------
Problems detected by yamllint can be raised either as errors or as warnings.
The CLI will output them (with different colors when using the ``standard``
output format).
The CLI will output them (with different colors when using the ``colored``
output format, or ``auto`` when run from a terminal).
By default the script will exit with a return code ``1`` *only when* there is one or
more error(s).

@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ The output will look like (colors are not displayed here):
10:1 error too many blank lines (4 > 2) (empty-lines)
11:4 error too many spaces inside braces (braces)
By default, the output of yamllint is colored when run from a terminal, and pure
text in other cases. Add the ``-f standard`` arguments to force non-colored output.
Use the ``-f colored`` arguments to force colored output.
Add the ``-f parsable`` arguments if you need an output format parsable by a
machine (for instance for :doc:`syntax highlighting in text editors
<text_editors>`). The output will then look like:

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