Previews no longer working with `glow` 2.0.0

[xfzv]

glow 2.0.0 was released on 2024-08-23.

On my Gentoo install with glow 1.5.1, glow.yazi displays markdown previews just fine.

However, on my two Arch Linux installs with glow 2.0.0, all I'm getting is regular text.

Downgrading to 1.5.1 on Arch Linux solves the issue.

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Edit: Also broken on my Gentoo install after updating glow to 2.0.0.

[Reledia]

By https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/issues/440, you need to set the env variable CLICOLOR_FORCE to 1. It is a workaround, but there is no other mention of this since v2.0 that I can find.

[xfzv]

By https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/issues/440, you need to set the env variable CLICOLOR_FORCE to 1.

Thanks, good catch.

Note that

% glow file.md

works just fine in the terminal with either 1.5.1 or 2.0.0, without any additional option. It's only broken with glow.yazi and glow 2.0.0.

Can confirm that export CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 restores the colors in the yazi previewer. Maybe this should be added by default?

[folliehiyuki]

Setting CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 will make glow use ANSI 4-bit color profile, if terminal is not detected. This is not the most beautiful output mode for people using terminal with TrueColor support. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/626 is the PR introducing the preview problem.

[wiraki]

There is this pull request: https://github.com/Reledia/glow.yazi/pull/8

You can check the change it makes in init.lua in the commits and manually make the same change yourself in ~/.config/yazi/plugins/glow.yazi/init.lua

[Reledia]

Merged it