Hello Ruben,
On 2024-06-09 09:44, Rubén Justo wrote:
Some concerns were raised about controlling when to send coloring
escape
sequences. Several ideas were discussed to address this, including
introducing a new command ">", a modifier for "|": "||", and others.
Alternatively, we could leave it up to the user to filter as needed.
Or, simply, do not send escape codes at all.
So, looking back at the ideas discussed in the thread, perhaps a
reasonable next step might be to reintroduce the 'P<program>' command
and let '|<program>' be the way to send raw, uncolored, chunks.
Actually, it would be better to re-introduce the "P" option, without
any parameters, which would display the current hunk through the
already configured pager, and let "|<program>" be the new option
that pipes hunks _without_ coloring escape sequences to "<program>".
As a follow-up, after the dust settles, we could add "><program>" as
another new option that pipes hunks _with_ the coloring escape sequences
to "<program>". That would be a rather clean approach, which would
also reserve the "weird-looking" commands with additional parameters
(i.e. "|<program>" and "><program>") for the more advanced operations,
while the "normal-looking" command (i.e. "P") would be assigned to
the, presumably, most commonly used new hunk operation.
