On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:35:48PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
I can prepare a patch series, but I happily no longer have any antique
systems to test this kind of stuff on.
Here it is. For those just joining us, the problem is that on some
systems, git log out of the box produces ANSI codes which are munged
by the pager and look terrible. I'm trying to improve that by
auto-configuring more (to get color in more cases that can handle it),
and by dynamically adjusting color.pager's default based on which pager
is in use (to turn off color in cases we know won't work).
I was able to test my assumptions about MORE on Debian, and adjusted
the patches accordingly from the previous discussion. I am still
guessing that versions of more without R will pass through the ANSI
codes as-is. That works on Debian. If anybody has an older system to
test and report on, I'd love to hear it.
The second patch turns on MORE=R only for FreeBSD. Yuri, if you can
confirm that my patch works for you, that would be excellent. And if you
(or anyone) has access to NetBSD or OpenBSD to test the second patch on,
I'd welcome updates to config.mak.uname for those systems.
We also set LV=-c along with LESS. I punted on detecting that in the
third patch, as I do not know the exact format of LV. It looks like
just checking for c might not be enough, and I need to actually
understand the option format (i.e., -c or -dc, but not -Ac). I'll
leave that to somebody who cares more about LV to improve (with these
patches, the behavior for them should remain the same, so it's at least
not making anything worse).
[1/3]: setup_pager: refactor LESS/LV environment setting
[2/3]: setup_pager: set MORE=R
[3/3]: pager: disable colors for some known-bad configurations
-Peff
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