I realize this doesn't work with latest changes on utils/table_printer.go when output is detected as non-tty and we use instead a tsv table renderer. This doesn't fix my initial problem when using watch.

Is this still the direction you think we should go @mislav ? Should --color=always be a strong enough signal that we are using a tty or should we allow override tty detection with --tty ?
It seems like tty detection is now doing more than coloration only (truncation as well).

Just a quick note: since cli uses glamour for rendering markdown content, we could also enforce/disable its colorization. Let me know if you need some help!

Thanks for looking into this @zapo. Adding the --no-color flag is definitely something the app needs. But because this PR is a few months old it is mostly out of date, so I'm going to close it. If you'd like to continue working on the problem I'd look at modifying the colorableOut function to check for the --no-color flag. This would make the surface area of the change pretty minimal and would ensure it works with future commands.

If you're interested in following progress on the colorization problem you can follow this issue #364

@zapo We still definitely want this feature, but we first making some changes to how we structure Cobra commands. After that, it will be easier to reconsider the global --color setting, but this PR will not apply there anyore. So thanks @probablycorey for closing this. 🙇