Annoying stuff: colorizing breaks less

[citibeth]

Try the following to see the problem:

spack spec git | less

[tgamblin]

spack spec git | less -R

[tgamblin]

Something like ls --color=auto where there's better tty detection would probably be good, though.

[citibeth]

Thanks for the magic -R flag. Now, why doesn't less turn that on by
default?

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Todd Gamblin notifications@github.com
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Something like ls --color=auto where there's better tty detection would
probably be good, though.

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#656 (comment)

[citibeth]

I've added documentation to this effect in a PR: #663
Since less with colorized output is more useful than less without, I don't think it's worth the effort to have Spack de-colorize output when using less. Therefore, I'm closing this Issue.