From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:21:51 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git log' escape symbols shown as ESC[33 and ESC[m
Message-ID: <20140117032151.GA17311@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140117023548.GB13023@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:35:48PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> I think we should make an effort to set MORE=R on FreeBSD. We can
> perhaps just set it unconditionally, and assume that primitive "more"
> will ignore it. And then assume that "more" will handle colors (either
> because of the R setting, or because it is too dumb to escape it).
> 
> I can prepare a patch series, but I happily no longer have any antique
> systems to test this kind of stuff on.

Meh. I figured I would have to go to an antique system to find breakage,
but it is easy to do it on Debian:

  $ MORE=R more
  more: unknown option -R

So we do need to make it conditional.

-Peff