Open xeruf opened 10 months ago
Great catch! I'm not really sure this is something that would be easy to fix, though.
bat
uses clap for argument parsing and generating the --help
message. By default, clap will only print the help message in color when printing to a terminal/tty. And in order to override clap's behaviour and force the help message to be colored, we would need to parse the --force-colorization
argument using clap—which is a chicken and egg problem.
I suppose we could parse the arguments twice, but I don't feel like that's a good use of processing time for something that doesn't occur often and doesn't affect the user experience in a major way.
And in order to override clap's behaviour and force the help message to be colored, we would need to parse the
--force-colorization
argument using clap—which is a chicken and egg problem.
We actually do this already:
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/3761df9112e8cad0b2afca49dcea7d847f1a99f6/src/bin/bat/app.rs#L59
So it might not be too hard to fix. But I agree that it doesn't necessarily require fixing. --force-colorization
is about bat
s standard output, not its --help
text.
What steps will reproduce the bug?
bat --help --force-colorization | cat
What happens?
No content formatting
What did you expect to happen instead?
flags are bold like when unpiped
How did you install
bat
?Arch
bat version and environment
bat -V bat 0.24.0 (fc954685)