bat refuses to page content

[mataha]

What steps will reproduce the bug?

bat some-long-test-file.txt --pager more --paging always

What happens?

Contents of the file are dumped to the terminal all at once.

What did you expect to happen instead?

Paging with more.

How did you install bat?

Cargo.

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bat version and environment

Software version

bat 0.23.0

Operating system

Windows 6.2.9200

Command-line

bat test.cmd --pager more --paging always --diagnostic

Environment variables

SHELL=<not set>
PAGER=<not set>
LESS=<not set>
LANG=<not set>
LC_ALL=<not set>
BAT_PAGER=more
BAT_CACHE_PATH=<not set>
BAT_CONFIG_PATH=<not set>
BAT_OPTS=<not set>
BAT_STYLE=<not set>
BAT_TABS=<not set>
BAT_THEME=<not set>
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=<not set>
XDG_CACHE_HOME=<not set>
COLORTERM=<not set>
NO_COLOR=<not set>
MANPAGER=<not set>

System Config file

Could not read contents of 'C:\ProgramData\bat\config': System nie może odnaleźć określonej ścieżki. (os error 3).

Config file

Could not read contents of 'C:\Users\Mataha\AppData\Roaming\bat\config': System nie może odnaleźć określonej ścieżki. (os error 3).

Custom assets metadata

Could not read contents of 'C:\Users\Mataha\AppData\Local\bat\metadata.yaml': System nie może odnaleźć określonej ścieżki. (os error 3).

Custom assets

'C:\Users\Mataha\AppData\Local\bat' not found

Compile time information

• Profile: release
• Target triple: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
• Family: windows
• OS: windows
• Architecture: x86_64
• Pointer width: 64
• Endian: little
• CPU features: fxsr,sse,sse2
• Host: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

[keith-hall]

#1666

[mataha]

#1666

Not applicable; --pager more or set BAT_PAGER=more should force it as override happens only when a problematic pager comes from the PAGER environment variable: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/src/pager.rs#L109-L120

[sharkdp]

Could this be a duplicate of #2572? (or the other way around)

[mataha]

I had the same thought - that turned to not be the case, sadly. I've tested the following:

• 871abd2 (0.23.0)
• b420c42 (before regression: bat fails to page - will not read from stdin if no file (or -) specified #2572)
• 149dec6 (after regression: bat fails to page - will not read from stdin if no file (or -) specified #2572)

[keith-hall]

Windows 6.2.9200

this is Windows Server 2012, right? (https://www.gaijin.at/en/infos/windows-version-numbers)
what terminal emulation program are you using? Not sure what difference it would make, but I know later versions of Windows have whole new conhost.exe and if you are able to try something different (even MSYS2 mintty) it could be helpful to rule stuff out.

[mataha]

Wow, that slipped past my attention - I didn't notice it at all. I'm on Windows 10 using conhost.exe:

$ ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.2965]

...why does bat think it's Windows Server 2012? Maybe that's what I should investigate first? EDIT: that seems like an unrelated issue.

[mataha]

I've finally managed to track it down. It's... hilarious, to say the least. See BurntSushi/ripgrep#2523...