git log is :shit:

[exalted]

Check out this quick screencast I recorded: http://quick.as/yYxXiQ4qO

[exalted]

More input here: at first I thought it could be due an another alias of mine, that is alias diff='colourify diff' (installed via brew install grc), but even when I unalias diff, it didn't change a thing... :confused:

[as-cii]

@exalted: I am not sure what's going on there, but apparently .gitconfig won't recognize bash aliases. As a result less will run without -R.

Appending less -R to your git alias should solve the issue :sparkles:

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Just tried with ! git --no-pager log --color --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%C(reset)%C(bold red)%d%C(reset) %s %C(black)— %an (%ad)%C(reset)' --relative-date | emojify | less -R git alias as well, but not I have this:

[as-cii]

@exalted: what's the result of the following command?

$ echo ":art:" | emojify

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P.S.: this gem is the hardest :shit: to report issues to... Haha!

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Without less (or less -R for that matter), I can see emojis just fine (but without pager).

[as-cii]

@exalted: what's the output of the following command?

$ locale

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Oh, nice try!

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LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

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@as-cii what's yours?

[as-cii]

This is mine:

LANG=
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

Try exporting these variables in your bash configuration:

export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

This should work like a charm :fire:

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I exported all that for a minute, like so:

export LANG=
export LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

The output is still missing :smiley: s.

So :cry: ...

[as-cii]

@exalted: holy crap! Sorry if this is causing headaches to you :disappointed:

What version of less are you using? Mine is 471

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Haha, no problem. I should investigate better my setup rather than complaning in the first place, but here you go:

less 418
Copyright (C) 1984-2007 Mark Nudelman

less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
Homepage: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less

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:open_mouth:

[as-cii]

Apparently you have a system version of the utility. What happens if you update less via the following command?

brew install less

[exalted]

@as-cii Did you install via brew install homebrew/dupes/less or somewhere else? Because homebrew duped version is:

less 458 (POSIX regular expressions)
Copyright (C) 1984-2012 Mark Nudelman

less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
Homepage: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less

[as-cii]

@exalted Yes, I did. brew info outputs:

less: stable 458
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/index.html
/usr/local/Cellar/less/458 (11 files, 356K)
  Built from source
/usr/local/Cellar/less/471 (11 files, 360K) *
  Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-dupes/blob/master/less.rb
==> Dependencies
Optional: pcre ✔
==> Options
--with-pcre
    Build with pcre support

Apparently I updated before they reverted this commit https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes/commit/7999a6293307ddee66a3e0710842b0260325b1fc. Whatever.

Does updating to 458 solve anything?

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Nope. Same :hankey: . What's Poured from bottle? I only have:

less: stable 458
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/index.html
/usr/local/Cellar/less/458 (11 files, 352K) *
  Built from source
From: https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-dupes/blob/master/less.rb
==> Dependencies
Optional: pcre ✔
==> Options
--with-pcre
    Build with pcre support

Maybe you installed from another source? What's your brew tap says? Mine:

homebrew/dupes
thoughtbot/formulae

[as-cii]

@exalted: sorry, I updated the comment so you probably didn't notice. Basically, I had a beta version which homebrew people released but reverted afterwards.

Reverting to 458 shows the exact behavior you're reporting here :scream:

I'll update the README.md now, but using less -r instead of less -R solves the issue. From the docs:

-r or --raw-control-chars
      Causes  "raw" control characters to be displayed.  The default is to display control characters using the caret notation;
      for example, a control-A (octal 001) is displayed as "^A".  Warning: when the -r option is used, less cannot  keep  track
      of the actual appearance of the screen (since this depends on how the screen responds to each type of control character).
      Thus, various display problems may result, such as long lines being split in the wrong place.

-R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
      Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are output in "raw" form.  Unlike -r, the screen appearance is maintained
      correctly in most cases.  ANSI "color" escape sequences are sequences of the form:

           ESC [ ... m

      where  the  "..."  is  zero or more color specification characters For the purpose of keeping track of screen appearance,
      ANSI color escape sequences are assumed to not move the cursor.  You can make less think that characters other  than  "m"
      can  end ANSI color escape sequences by setting the environment variable LESSANSIENDCHARS to the list of characters which
      can end a color escape sequence.  And you can make less think that characters other than the  standard  ones  may  appear
      between  the  ESC  and  the  m  by  setting the environment variable LESSANSIMIDCHARS to the list of characters which can
      appear.

[as-cii]

Thank you @exalted

[exalted]

Wtf?! -r?!?! That’s so boring. Haha. Thank you!

I will try asap, bit I am sure it will work.

[exalted]

I hereby confirm that -r is the :hankey: Works like :fireworks:

Thanks and :hand: :five:

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Side note: system less works just fine.

[as-cii]

@exalted: yeah, I suspected that. However, I'll keep the notice in README.md to avoid any kind of issue related to an old version.

Thanks for pointing that out, though. Your help was very precious :gem:

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Just a quick feedback here: When less is used with -r (that is --raw-control-chars and note it’s lowercase!) you will hit an issue with the way less calculates line lengths, therefore if a single line of log is longer than your $COLUMNS it will “wrap” it to the next line.

Most of the time it should be enough to pass --chop-long-lines to less to “chop” whatever exceeds $COLUMNS length, but as per http://greenwoodsoftware.com/less/faq.html#dashr essentially “disables"--chop-long-lines`, so here we are back to having lines wrapping.

Also, if the first ever line of your logs is longer than your terminal’s length, then less will fail to show its first line, unless you don’t scroll down/up to read it.

Anyhow, I wrote to Mark Nudelman (author of less), but I am not sure if this is something he’s willing to “fix”, or whatever.

In the meantime I came across to most:

If less is more than more, most is more than less.

And that’s quite literally fu**ed up. Nevertheless, most works beautifully with emojis, with proper line wrapping and what not.

If, ever, anyone will be headed here in future, they will now! :punch:

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Also, apparently the "problem" with less is that latest version available on homebrew, as of today, doesn't include most of the emoji codes, therefore using --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS will show them similar to <U+719827>.

I talked to Mark, and upon his request compiled the beta version less-471 (it's in beta since 14 Dec 2014 :scream:), to find that --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS works beautifully!

So, to wrap this thing up: you really shouldn't use --raw-control-chars flag, because it is not reliable :art:-wise, instead you might want to use --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS with the beta version of less, OR try most, as suggested earlier.

[ghost]

thx