A blank line at the end of output.

[nb5p]

When using the “--style plain” parameter, there will be a blank line at the end of the output.

[sharkdp]

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[sharkdp]

Hm.. I think this is actually caused by less somehow. Everything is alright if we set --paging=never.

Edit: this is caused by the combination of ANSI codes that are printed by bat and the usage of less. If we set --color=never, the issue is also gone.

[teresaejunior]

Couldn't this be related to #434? Maybe there is an extra newline when using with --plain?

[sharkdp]

Couldn't this be related to #434? Maybe there is an extra newline when using with --plain?

No, I don't think it is related.

I think the problem is the following.

Say we have a file "test.md" with content "foo":

echo foo > test.md

When we output this file via bat, we see the wrong behavior (notice the additional empty line):

▶ bat -p test.md ; echo test 
foo

test

To see what bat actually outputs, we can pipe it's output to bat -A which shows all non-printable characters (we have to use --color=always to make sure that it still outputs ANSI codes):

▶ bat --color=always -p test.md | bat -Ap
␛[38;2;255;255;255mfoo␊
␛[0m

We can see that bat outputs the ANSI sequence ␛[38;2;255;255;255m to set the foreground color to white. Then, it outputs foo␊, i.e. the full first line of the file (including the newline / line-feed). Finally, it outputs the ANSI sequence ␛[0m to reset the foreground color.

I think it is this additional (empty) line including the ␛[0m sequence which trips up less. Again, notice that everything is fine if we disable the pager:

▶ bat --paging=never -p test.md ; echo test
foo
test

[sharkdp]

We can also confirm this by using printf:

▶ printf "\x1b[38;2;255;255;255mfoo\n\x1b[0m" | less -FRX; echo test 
foo

test

/tmp                                                                               
▶ printf "\x1b[38;2;255;255;255mfoo\n\x1b[0m"; echo test            
foo
test

We could potentially fix this inside bat by moving the ANSI reset-code before the newline:

▶ printf "\x1b[38;2;255;255;255mfoo\x1b[0m\n" | less -FRX; echo test
foo
test

[sharkdp]

Fixed in v0.10.0.