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qnx
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 Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 10:14 pm Post subject: Display color output in less |
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Hi! When I run
the result I get is less readable... Something like:
| Code: | ESC[0;01mUsage:
ESC[36;01mqpkgESC[0;0m [ESC[0;01moptionsESC[0;0m] [ESC[33;01mpkgnameESC[
0;0m] [ESC[34;01m-gESC[33;01m groupESC[0;0m] [ESC[34;01m-fESC[33;01m <file>ESC[0
;0m|ESC[34;01m-fpESC[33;01m <patern>ESC[0;0m]
ESC[36;01mqpkgESC[0;0m ESC[34;01m--dupsESC[0;0m [ESC[34;01m--slotESC[0;0
m]
ESC[36;01mqpkgESC[0;0m ESC[34;01m--helpESC[0;0m
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What can I do to display colors in less?? Or should I use another pager??
Cheers!
P.S. Of course, in this case I can just run qpkg with -nc atribut (no color). But I have this problem with other commands that do not support no-color-mode. Also, I hate to use more.
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Pigeon
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| Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | qpkg --help|less -R |
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qnx
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Thanks man!
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carambola5
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fewer keystrokes  |
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joycea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2002 2:38 am Post subject: |
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To make it permanent you can alias less in your .bashrc file such as,
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alias less="less -r"
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or you can set the environment variable LESS, such as,
Both of these will make the color option rather automatic. |
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qnx
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Yes, it's a good idea to alias less with -r. Thanks!
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foxcub
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Here is a follow up question. Why is "emerge -s phoenix" (or any other package) colorized, while "emerge -s phoenix | more" is not? And how can I colorize the later one?
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sekh
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sorry to bring back this thread from the dead 
But does anyone know the answer to the question in the above post? i was wondering this myself? |
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joycea
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| I don't think either less or more are capable of displaying the colours, only stripping out the control characters. I don't know if there is going to be a simple solution to this problem, it may have to do with how less and more have to keep redrawing the display that they are discarded. |
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PowerFactor
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| foxcub wrote: | | Here is a follow up question. Why is "emerge -s phoenix" (or any other package) colorized, while "emerge -s phoenix | more" is not? |
I think it is something in emerge that checks if it's output is the terminal or a pipe I say this because qpkg still colorizes the output when piped or redirected, unless you specify the --nocolor option. I don't know if there is any way to change this without modifying emerge, nothing listed in the man page.
joycea, did you not read any of the previous posts? Both less and more can display color.  |
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foxcub
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Is this worth submitting a bug report (to bugzilla)? |
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sekh
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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joycea: less is quite capable of displaying colors.... try for instance
| Code: | | qpkg --help | less -R |
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| Code: | | ls -l --color | less -R |
should work
what powerfactor suggest about it checking what the output is sounds like a probable reason to me howver it would be nice to be able to do an
| Code: | | emerge -up system | less -R |
when the update list is REALLY long :p |
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BigBaaadBob
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I was going to post a bug report about this.
What typcally happens is that programs check to see whether the stdout is a tty, and if it isn't they (by default) turn off all fancy stuff like color. This still allows you to use color if you want, by specifying explicit options. The theory is that if the stdout isn't a tty then it is probably a pipeline where you want to deal with the raw data. An example would be: where you don't want all the colorizing stuff to end up in the character count.
Qpkg also misbehaves when working into a pipeline like this: | Code: | spooky root # qpkg -l -nc emacs | less
/usr/bin/qpkg: line 478: 9635 Broken pipe cat
/usr/bin/qpkg: line 478: 9632 Exit 141 if [ ! \( "${tcheck}" -o "${mcheck}" -o "${info}" -o "${list}" -o "${query}" -o ${verb} -gt 0 \) ]; then
sed -e "s:-r[0-9]\+$::" -e "s:-[0-9][^-]*$::" | sort -k2 | uniq -1;
else
if [ ! \( "${tcheck}" -o "${mcheck}" -o "${info}" -o "${list}" -o "${query}" -o ${verb} -lt 2 \) ]; then
sort -k2 | uniq -1;
else
cat;
fi;
fi
9634 Broken pipe | sed -e "s:^iii ${X}/${X}:${BR}\1/${CY}\2${STAR}${NO}:" -e "s:^uuu ${X}/${X}:${BR}\1/${YL}\2${NO}:" -e "s:^vvv \(.*\)$:${BL}\1${NO}:" -e "s:^obj ::;s:^sym ::;s:^dir ::"
/usr/bin/qpkg: line 478: 9641 Broken pipe sed -e "s:\(^obj \)\([^ ]*\)\(.*$\):\1${BR}\2${NO}:;
s:\(^sym \)\([^ ]*\)\( -> \)\([^ ]*\)\(.*$\):\1${CY}\2${NO}\3\4:;
s:\(^dir \)\([^ ]*\)\(.*$\):\1${YL}\2${NO}:"
/usr/bin/qpkg: line 478: 9640 Broken pipe cat $d/CONTENTS
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What happened is I hit "q" in less.
As I said I was going to report it as a bug, but I wanted to take a crack at fixing it first. In my free time.... Riiiight... |
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foxcub
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| So in other words, both qpkg and emerge need an explicit "--color" option that would force the output to include the control characters even if it's going into the pipe; and without it both programs should check whether they are outputting into a tty, and based on that include or exclude the control information? Just trying to make sure I understood you correctly. |
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BigBaaadBob
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| Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| foxcub: Yup. I expressed it as deciding on the "default" option of color or nocolor based on whether or not stdout is a tty, but you said it just as well. |
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_Vinz_
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
I have been encountering the same problem. Is there any progress in that field before I post a bug report on Bugzilla to add a default --color option to emerge?
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foxcub
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| Not that I know of, so I'd file a bug report since I don't think anybody else has bothered to look at this problem, though, to be frank I have no clue. |
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_Vinz_
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Yo foxcub,
Thanks for the reply. Looking on the database, I found these related problems :
bugs #1006 and #5714. They are more or less related to our problem.
Bug report filed in : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42115
I'll let you know how it goes.
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AVernon
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devslashzero
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject: Back from the dead |
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Wow, 2004... Well, emerge still doesn't do this by default, so I spent a long while accepting monochrome paged output until I found this thread and poked around the manpages for less and emerge. In case it helps someone else, the following is a working combination of the two:
| Code: | | emerge --color y | less |
That is, less doesn't need -r or -R in this chain. The hint to emerge takes care of it. |
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