From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:28:10 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git log' escape symbols shown as ESC[33 and ESC[m
Message-ID: <52D8953A.8010307@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140117021320.GA12444@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 01/16/2014 18:13, Jeff King wrote:
> Interesting. I take it that "more" does not pass through ANSI codes at
> all, then.
>


Actually, 'more -R' also passes colors on FreeBSD. So maybe you can 
always add -R if PAGER=more on *BSD (any of them) ? This will fix this 
issue.

I know, it is unpleasant when you add some new minor feature (like term 
colors), and people begin to complain about some related issues. But 
turning colors off isn't a good approach also. App just needs to be 
smarter about when and how to use them.

I would go even further, and convey even more information with colors. 
For example, make all dates which are less than 24 hours red.

Yuri