macOS no color help

[grylem]

Hi
bfs -help
ESC[01;36m-PESC[0m etc. instead color
Regards.

[tavianator]

Thanks for the report. Did this work with the previous version (2.2)? Can you tell me the output of

echo $PAGER
echo $LESS

[grylem]

Did this work with the previous version (2.2)?

No. The old version has the same problems

echo $PAGER
nothing
echo $LESS
-R

[tavianator]

Ah okay. bfs doesn't override LESS because if it's explicitly set, it might have flags that are necessary to make it work right on a particular terminal or something. If you do LESS= bfs -help it should set the right flags.

This is the same behaviour as git by the way. If git log etc. have colors for you, maybe you have pager set to something in your ~/.gitconfig?

[tavianator]

Hmm actually LESS=-R should work. I'll see if I can get access to a mac to reproduce. Does LESS=FKRX bfs -help work? What about LESS=R bfs -help?

[grylem]

maybe you have pager set to something in your ~/.gitconfig?

no

LESS=FKRX bfs -help, LESS=R bfs -help

change shell from bash to sh, ksh(without shrc etc.), update less from macports version 581 - with the same result.

[tavianator]

Oh wait a second, what about with PAGER=less?

[grylem]

PAGER=less bfs -help
it works fine

[tavianator]

Ah okay. So what's going on is by default bfs actually uses more since it's a POSIX utility, whereas less might not be installed. I guess the more on macOS escapes the escape sequences, unlike on Linux. I can reproduce this on FreeBSD too, so I should be able to fix it.

[grylem]

it is very good.
Also for old macOS clang(High Sierra Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)) i have a lot of warnings like
warning: declaration does not declare anything [-Wmissing-declarations]