From 473a009a86ac4c58a3977b203e47a9795a896989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas von Dein <tom@vondein.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:54:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] refactored line colorizer

---
 cfg/config.go      |  4 ----
 cfg/config_test.go |  1 -
 lib/helpers.go     | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cfg/config.go b/cfg/config.go
index e0f0208..c7c5c91 100644
--- a/cfg/config.go
+++ b/cfg/config.go
@@ -111,10 +111,6 @@ type Config struct {
 	Colorizers    []string     // []string{"/ /-/", "/foo/fg[:bg]/"}
 	UseColorizers []Transposer // {Search: re, Replace: color}
 
-	/*
-	 FIXME: make configurable somehow, config file or ENV
-	 see https://github.com/gookit/color.
-	*/
 	ColorStyle        color.Style
 	HighlightStyle    color.Style
 	NoHighlightStyle  color.Style
diff --git a/cfg/config_test.go b/cfg/config_test.go
index b4b1058..6b2bbb4 100644
--- a/cfg/config_test.go
+++ b/cfg/config_test.go
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ func TestPrepareModeFlags(t *testing.T) {
 		{Modeflag{}, ASCII},
 	}
 
-	// FIXME: use a map for easier printing
 	for _, testdata := range tests {
 		testname := fmt.Sprintf("PrepareModeFlags-expect-%d", testdata.expect)
 		t.Run(testname, func(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/lib/helpers.go b/lib/helpers.go
index 6027b08..ab291b7 100644
--- a/lib/helpers.go
+++ b/lib/helpers.go
@@ -245,35 +245,34 @@ func reduceColumns(conf cfg.Config, data *Tabdata) {
 	}
 }
 
-// FIXME: refactor this beast!
 func colorizeData(conf cfg.Config, output string) string {
+	if !conf.NoColor && !color.IsConsole(os.Stdout) {
+		panic(1)
+		return output
+	}
+
 	switch {
-	case conf.UseHighlight && color.IsConsole(os.Stdout):
+	case conf.UseHighlight:
 		highlight := true
 		colorized := ""
-		first := true
+		style := color.Style{}
 
-		for _, line := range strings.Split(output, "\n") {
-			if highlight {
-				if first {
-					// we  need to add  two spaces to the  header line
-					//  because tablewriter omits them for some reason
-					//  in pprint mode. This doesn't matter as long as
-					//  we don't use colorization. But with colors the
-					// missing spaces can be seen.
-					if conf.OutputMode == cfg.ASCII {
-						line += "  "
-					}
-
-					line = conf.HighlightHdrStyle.Sprint(line)
-					first = false
-				} else {
-					line = conf.HighlightStyle.Sprint(line)
-				}
-			} else {
-				line = conf.NoHighlightStyle.Sprint(line)
+		for idx, line := range strings.Split(output, "\n") {
+			if idx == 0 {
+				style = conf.HighlightHdrStyle
 			}
 
+			switch highlight {
+			case true:
+				if idx > 0 {
+					style = conf.HighlightStyle
+				}
+			case false:
+				style = conf.NoHighlightStyle
+			}
+
+			line = style.Sprint(line)
+
 			highlight = !highlight
 
 			colorized += line + "\n"
@@ -281,7 +280,7 @@ func colorizeData(conf cfg.Config, output string) string {
 
 		return colorized
 
-	case len(conf.Patterns) > 0 && !conf.NoColor && color.IsConsole(os.Stdout):
+	case len(conf.Patterns) > 0:
 		out := output
 
 		for _, re := range conf.Patterns {