Re: [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more"

> 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:
>> 
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>> 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.