# completion troubles with bash 2 messages from 2018-05-01 to 2018-05-01. Participants: Pascal Bourdier, Duy Nguyen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48393 ## Pascal Bourdier, 2018-05-01 12:17 Subject: completion troubles with bash Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPQz56bts8zFfUHyKJqnefQoH97L5TTA-k3be%3D5HsdeEbcMqOA%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, If "GREP_OPTIONS" is set to '--color=always' , then the git completion send some escape characters like this : ^[[1;35;40m^[[K d^[[m^[[Kiff-files mergetool a^[[m^[[Kdd d^[[m^[[Kiff-index mv a^[[m^[[Kddremove d^[[m^[[Kiff-tree name-rev a^[[m^[[Km d^[[m^[[Kifftool notes ... So you could find a small patch to disable color with "grep" in attachment. Regards, Pascal Bourdier diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash index b09c8a236..0bc55b9ee 100644 --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ __git_commands () { then printf "%s" "${GIT_TESTING_COMMAND_COMPLETION}" else - git help -a|egrep '^ [a-zA-Z0-9]' + git help -a|egrep --color=never '^ [a-zA-Z0-9]' fi } ``` ## Duy Nguyen, 2018-05-01 12:26 Subject: Re: completion troubles with bash Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACsJy8AD2bjdRyNDBxcBOEWSknn%3DkzXfKGtkaYtZmiLshjUg3w%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Pascal Bourdier wrote: > Hi, > > > If "GREP_OPTIONS" is set to '--color=always' , then the git completion > send some escape characters like this : > > ^[[1;35;40m^[[K d^[[m^[[Kiff-files mergetool > a^[[m^[[Kdd d^[[m^[[Kiff-index mv > a^[[m^[[Kddremove d^[[m^[[Kiff-tree name-rev > a^[[m^[[Km d^[[m^[[Kifftool notes > ... > > > So you could find a small patch to disable color with "grep" in attachment. Yep. The topic 'nd/command-list' on 'pu' accidentally fixes this too since it removes the use of egrep. > > > Regards, > > > Pascal Bourdier -- Duy ```