Colors are broken in cat mode

[ivanp7]

Pager mode works fine:

I use custom st build as the terminal under Artix Linux. nvimpager is installed as nvimpager-git package (version 0.10.3.r3.g2c2e137-1) from AUR, neovim is of version 0.6.0

[lucc]

Can you share the example file so I can reproduce this?

[ivanp7]

diff --git a/fixes/smartbuy_extra_keys/install.sh b/fixes/smartbuy_extra_keys/install.sh
index 81c0194..a2f945e 100755
--- a/fixes/smartbuy_extra_keys/install.sh
+++ b/fixes/smartbuy_extra_keys/install.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh

+cat xmodmap >> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/X11/xmodmap"
+
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 MAP_FILE=smartbuy-keyboard.map
 { sudo dumpkeys | head -1; cat "$MAP_FILE"; } | sudo tee -a /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/$MAP_FILE
 sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/$MAP_FILE

-cat xmodmap >> "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/X11/xmodmap"
-

This happens with any patch/diff.

I also tried nvimpager -c -- -u NORC, got the same problem with default colors. With nvimpager -c -- -u NONE I get colorless output.

[lucc]

I am sorry I can not reproduce this with the given file. I tried termite and st from the NixOS repos. My neovim is also 0.6 from NixOS.

I checked out 2c2e137 and ran

./nvimpager -c ./issue-59-example.diff -u NORC
./nvimpager -c ./issue-59-example.diff
./nvimpager -p ./issue-59-example.diff -u NORC
./nvimpager -p ./issue-59-example.diff

For me the highlight does not leak.

Can you cross check with another terminal and maybe even vanilla st?

[lucc]

./nvimpager -c ./issue-59-example.diff -u NORC > issue-59-example.diff.log yields this file for me: issue-59-example.diff.log

Is that the same for you?

[lucc]

We can also try to check your terminal. What happens if you cat mini.txt with this file? mini.txt

[ivanp7]

Both vanilla st and termite work better, but still have uncolored spaces:

Is that the same for you?

Yes, diff reports outputs are the same.

What happens if you cat mini.txt with this file?

All custom st, vanilla st, and termite show this:

[ivanp7]

I modified your mini.txt to show text in red background (I changed 31 to 41), and this is what I get in all terminals:

Linux console and fbterm work fine. It is not nvimpager problem nor st terminal problem. I don't know, what's going on.

[lucc]

I updated my mini.txt to background colours like you siad but I can not reproduce this. I am currently on Arch Linux with several terminal emulators (st from aur) I get this:

[ivanp7]

I am sure now that this isn't nvimpager issue, because I've managed to reproduce the breakage in both st and termite. Right after start the colors are fine, but if I cd into other directory, start graphical application from there AND cd back, then colors break. This is extremely odd, I cannot even guess what the reason may be.

[lucc]

Maybe your prompt uses strange escape sequences that are emitted when you cd? Try st -e /bin/sh or so.

I will close this now, but you can still post updates, maybe I have an idea that can help :crossed_fingers: Maybe you might have luck asking on unix.SE.

[ivanp7]

Thanks for help. Probably you're right, this is related to the shell... Luckily, this problem happens not that often and reset fixes it temporarily.