On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Xavier Maillard wrote: > > With LESS variable set as "-M", git diff displays escape sequence > instead of the colored ouput (as requested in my .git/config => > color.diff=auto). That's how 'less' works. It shows escape sequences as the escapes by default. > If set to FRSX, it works perfectly. It's the '-R' part that does the magic. > Is this a bug ? No, it's documented less behaviour. See "man less". If you want to use "-M", you can mix it with R (or the other flags, for that matter) and use "LESS=MR" or "LESS=FRSXM" or whatever you like. But if you want less to pass through colors, you need that R there somewhere. (You could use lower-case "r" too, but that's very dangerous, since it lets through _all_ escape sequences, including the ones that really screw up your terminal experience) Linus -- 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
