bat does not show color, even with --color=always when used with watch --color

[maxnoe]

When using

watch -n1 --color 'bat some_file.py --color=always'

I get no colors. Colors work for e.g. watch -n1 --color 'git log --color=always' and when not using watch

Manjaro, bat 0.18.1, tested in kitty and konsole terminals

[Enselic]

Thanks for taking the time to write a bug report! This is however due to a limitation of watch, which does not support 8-bit colors and above yet. See https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/issues/44.

If you add --theme=ansi to your bat command, you will get colors. This theme use 3-bit colors. git log works out of the box because it always uses 3-bit colors.

It is worth noting that not even --theme=base16 is fully supported. Its 3-bit colors work, but its 4-bit-specific colors are ignored.

[maxnoe]

Thanks, that works nicely