Color in Mac OS X's Terminal for RI

[Benoit Daloze]

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Hi Rubyists,

I'm wondering why I can't have colors for `ri` in my Terminal.app

Well, I tried this command (ri -f ansi Hash) with 3 interpreters:
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0] => doesn't
work, I get some ESC[1m
ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-18 trunk 24186) [i386-darwin9.8.0] => doesn't work, I
get some ESC[1m

jruby 1.4.0RC3 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 174) (2009-10-28 d0f6289) (Java
HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_20) [i386-java]
=> WORK (but not so cool colors.. that's another subject...)

The difference I see is jruby output directly to the STDOUT, while the ruby
interpreters use `less`, which seem to not work good with these colors...

In fact I'm resolving myself my own problem ....

Using -T(--no-pager) send directly to STDOUT, what works.

So my question is: why `less` doesn't accept colors?

P.S.: Anyway I've aliased ri to "ri --no-pager -f ansi", and I'm happy since
I don't like so much these pagers...

Enjoy Ruby !

 

[Matt Neuburg]

Anyway I've aliased ri to "ri --no-pager -f ansi"

Or alternatively export RI as '-T -f ansi'.