Preserve ANSI escape sequences

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Preserve ANSI escape sequences #54

Open ncfavier opened 1 year ago

ncfavier commented 1 year ago

It would be nice to have an option to preserve ANSI escape sequences in the main view, similar to less's -r or -R flags. Currently it seems like the ESC characters are stripped, leaving only things like [94m[33m.

konradsz commented 6 months ago

Is it similar request to this one: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/519? If so, BurntSushi's response applies here as well.

ncfavier commented 6 months ago

No, ripgrep has the correct behaviour:

$ printf '\e[0;34mfoo\n' > foo
$ rg . foo # shows "foo" in blue
$ ig . foo # shows "[0;34mfoo"

That issue is about ignoring escape codes in search, i.e. interpreting those sequences and excluding them from the text. I am asking to leave the sequences alone so that they can be interpreted by my terminal.