Add faq entry about re-use of environments

tox-dev · Dec 29, 2022 · e565112 · e565112
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+Add faq entry about re-use of environments - by :user:`jugmac00`.
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 - We now use colors for reporting, to help make the output easier to read for humans. This can be disabled via the
   ``TERM=dumb`` or ``NO_COLOR=1`` environment variables, or the ``--colored no`` CLI argument.
 
+tox 4 -- re-use of environments
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+- It is no longer possible to re-use environments. While this was possible with tox version 3, this behavior was never
+  supported and only worked by chance. You could possibly create a plugin to re-establish this functionality.
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 New features in tox 4
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 Here is a non-exhaustive list of these.