From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: norm@dad.org, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
l.s.r@web.de, git@vger.kernel.org,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more"
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 07:16:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718131653.GC19751@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160718091907.GA13588@starla>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:19:07AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, norm@dad.org wrote:
> > > 'git diff' outputs escape characters which clutter my terminal. Yes, I
> > > can sed them out, but then why are they there?
> >
> > Those are most likely the ANSI sequences to add color. Can you call Git
> > with the --no-color option and see whether the escape characters go away?
>
> Norm: do you have PAGER=more set by any chance?
> Perhaps changing it to "less" will allow you to preserve colors.
>
> I saw a similar or identical problem during my vacation in
> FreeBSD-land. Perhaps the out-of-the-box experience can be
> improved:
>
> -----8<-----
> Subject: [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more"
This is the tip of a smaller iceberg. See
http://public-inbox.org/git/52D87A79.6060600%40rawbw.com/t/#u
for more discussion, and some patches that fix more cases (like "LESS"
without "R", or "more" that _does_ understand "R"). I think it was
discarded as being a little too intimate with the details of pagers, but
it does suck that the out-of-the-box experience on FreeBSD is not good.
Maybe we should revisit it.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-18 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 19:12 Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output norm
2016-07-16 20:47 ` Perry Hutchison
2016-07-17 7:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-19 15:20 ` norm
2016-07-17 12:18 ` René Scharfe
2016-07-17 17:26 ` norm
2016-07-18 7:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-18 9:19 ` [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more" Eric Wong
2016-07-18 13:16 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-07-18 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 18:58 ` Jeff King
2016-07-19 2:37 ` Eric Wong
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