On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 09:19:07AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, norm@xxxxxxx wrote: > > > 'git diff' outputs escape characters which clutter my terminal. Yes, I > > > can sed them out, but then why are they there? > > > > Those are most likely the ANSI sequences to add color. Can you call Git > > with the --no-color option and see whether the escape characters go away? > > Norm: do you have PAGER=more set by any chance? > Perhaps changing it to "less" will allow you to preserve colors. > > I saw a similar or identical problem during my vacation in > FreeBSD-land. Perhaps the out-of-the-box experience can be > improved: > > -----8<----- > Subject: [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more" This is the tip of a smaller iceberg. See http://public-inbox.org/git/52D87A79.6060600%40rawbw.com/t/#u for more discussion, and some patches that fix more cases (like "LESS" without "R", or "more" that _does_ understand "R"). I think it was discarded as being a little too intimate with the details of pagers, but it does suck that the out-of-the-box experience on FreeBSD is not good. Maybe we should revisit it. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html