From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuri Subject: Re: 'git log' escape symbols shown as ESC[33 and ESC[m Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:02:24 -0800 Message-ID: <52D88F30.4000807@rawbw.com> References: <52D87A79.6060600@rawbw.com> <20140117014758.GF7249@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 17 03:02:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3ylY-0000zN-EM for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:02:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751992AbaAQCCc (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:02:32 -0500 Received: from shell0.rawbw.com ([198.144.192.45]:63900 "EHLO shell0.rawbw.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751770AbaAQCCa (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:02:30 -0500 Received: from eagle.yuri.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0H22OX9077115; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <20140117014758.GF7249@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 01/16/2014 17:47, Jeff King wrote: > Are you using "less" as your pager (it is the default in git unless you > have set your PAGER environment variable)? If so, do you have the "R" > option set to pass through ANSI codes? Git will set this automatically > in your "LESS" variable if you do not already have such a variable (but > it will not touch it if you already have it set, and are missing "R"). My PAGER variable was set to "more". PAGER=more is also a default for a newly created user in FreeBSD. So what would be the correct fix here in general, so that git will work fine for a new unchanged user? Yuri