In addition to selecting the appropriate theme, Clon provides two
built-in options that give you additional control on the output. These
options are orthogonal to themes: all themes implicitly honor them.
Since their description is pretty self-explanatory, they are given
below.
The first one allows you to control the output’s line width:
--clon-line-width=WIDTH Set Clon's output line width.
If not given, the value of the COLUMNS
environment variable, the terminal size,
or a default of 80 columns will be used.
Environment: CLON_LINE_WIDTH
The second one deals with highlighting (see Highlight).
Clon has the ability to highlight the output through ISO/IEC 6429 SGR
escape sequences. The built-in raw theme doesn’t do highlighting but
other do.
--clon-highlight[=ARG] Set Clon's output highlighting to on/off/auto.
Auto (the default) means on for tty output and
off otherwise.
Fallback: yes
Default: auto
Environment: CLON_HIGHLIGHT
A word of caution is in order here. For technical reasons (in fact, the
potential inability to detect a terminal properly), it is possible that
the auto setting for --clon-highlight, which happens to be
the default, doesn’t work. In such a case, highlight is switched off,
and you need to use --clon-highlight=yes explicitely to force it.
For the same technical reason, it may be impossible to detect a terminal
line width from time to time, in which case it would fall back to 80
columns. This particular problem is much less likely to bite you because
the COLUMNS environment variable should be set all the time.
Both of these problems may or may not occur for specific applications, depending on their underlying implementation.