Ah!
I had seen this on various machines from time to time, but never had the stamina to figure it out. Thanks! Michael On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:03:13PM +0100, Jan Derrfuss wrote: > Dear All, > > It took me a while to figure this one out, so I thought I'll post > the solution to the mailing list in case someone else has the same > issues. > > When I used object_name? or object_name?? in IPython, I frequently > (but not always) had output with color escape sequences looking like > this: > ESC[0;31mType: ESC[0mAttributesCollector > (...) > > After a while, I realized that this only happens with longer output. > It turned out that the underlying problem is that longer output is > passed to a pager (e.g., less) before it is displayed. For example, > in my .bashrc I had set the pager to less: > export PAGER=less > > The problem was solved by using less -r instead: > PAGER='less -r' > > Best, > Jan > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-ExpPsy-PyMVPA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exppsy-pymvpa -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de _______________________________________________ Pkg-ExpPsy-PyMVPA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exppsy-pymvpa
