Unable to change colors

[jlschiavone]

I'm trying to change the color that's used for "add" with this command:

icdiff --color-map='add:cyan_bold'

and I cannot get it to work. When I run that command it just returns the list of available options. What am I doing wrong? I'm in Terminal on Mac OS.

Thanks.

[jeffkaufman]

When you set --color-map=... that's an option, and it applies to the current command. So you could do something like:

icdiff --color-map='add:cyan_bold' old.txt new.txt

and it would use cyan bold to show you the additions.

If you want icdiff to always apply this option you could alias it. In bash you'd put a line like:

alias icdiff="icdiff --color-map='add:cyan_bold'"

into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile (I forget which one is used on mac)

[jlschiavone]

Ah, I see, thank you. I use icdiff exclusively with git. But this does not seem to work.

git icdiff --color-map='add:cyan_bold'

Is there a way to achieve what I'm trying?

[jeffkaufman]

If you're using icdiff with git then you can set the git configuration item icdiff.options. See https://github.com/jeffkaufman/icdiff/blob/master/git-icdiff