From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:32:04 GMT
Subject: Re: odd behavior with export LESS=i
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0907141032o6b1aac51yb42a640249f04050@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3a69fa7c0907141018l4f6fb773o219b6a18effc393d@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:18, E R<pc88mxer@gmail.com> wrote:
> export LESS
> LESS=i git log
>
> then I see things like ESC[33m instead of colored text.

That's because (as you could read in less'
way-too-long-for-a-damn-pager man page), you did not specify the magic
"-R" make-everything-work-like-it-should option, which turns on the
display of escape sequences (which are used to color your terminal).


> If I run:
>
> unset LESS
> git log
>
> then I get colored text.

That's because if not set, git default to setting LESS to -FXRS (which
includes the -R option). Solution is to either not set LESS, or to
include -R if that's indeed what you want.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier