Output without paging doesn't stop highlighting

[travankor]

Setting PAGER or BAT_PAGER to none will keep highlighting text in certain shells like bash or dash. Strangely, this does not happen on fish.

Example:

Tested on delta 0.0.15.

[dandavison]

Thanks for reporting @travankor! To make sure I understand, could you clarify exactly what you mean by "setting PAGER to none"? If you could post the output of env | grep PAGER that would help too.

[travankor]

Thanks for the quick response! The program bat, which seems to be where delta's pager support comes from, lets you set PAGER=none or add the flag --pager=none to turn off paging. delta doesn't seem to have the latter option, but setting the environment variable BAT_PAGER=none allows you to output to the terminal without calling a pager.

Admittedly, this sort of feature is not so useful for git diffs (I was just testing delta out in the screenshot), but this would be neat for using with diff -u, where you don't necessarily to call the pager (since diff -u does not call less by default).

[travankor]

On second glance, setting BAT_PAGER or PAGER=none completely messes up delta's formatting, so I'm guessing this is unsupported behaviour. Apologies for not noticing this earlier (just started looking at delta today).

Edit: So I think this is a duplicate of #45

[dandavison]

Edit: So I think this is a duplicate of #45

Right, that's what I was thinking too. But this ticket has good information in it for when someone deals with #45; thanks again.