Allow disabling all color functions with a global toggle

[mjy9088]

const noop = (str) => str;
const color = (colorFn) => process.stdout.isTTY ? colorFn : noop;
const red = color(colors.red);

console.log(red("This should be red only if it's an interactive shell"));

Most CLI developers end up writing boilerplate like this to conditionally disable colors in non-interactive environments (e.g., when output is redirected). It would be extremely helpful to have a built-in option or global toggle that makes all color functions no-ops automatically when needed.

This would simplify codebases and eliminate the need to wrap every color usage manually.

[doowb]

@mjy9088 sorry for the delay in responding, but one of your pull requests is interesting and I wanted to think about it some more.

As for enabling and disabling color support in general, this has already been addressed in another issue.

Here's the documentation.

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[mjy9088]

I didn’t realize there was a related issue, but after reading it, I think trying to cover all similar cases would be never-ending. I don’t think #61 is necessary now. Thanks to pointing that out :)