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Mercurial. Colour output piped to less

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Mar 15, 202610257 views
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Problem

Operating system: Mac OS 10.6.2 I'd like to be able to see colour output when piping certain commands through less. Two examples: I've got ls aliased to , so I'd like to be able to see colour when I do this: I've also got the color extension turned on in Mercurial, so I'd like to see colour output …

Error Output

ls -l | less

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Fix for: Mercurial. Colour output piped to less

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For mercurial, you should use the pager extension rather than piping explicitly to less. This will play nicely with the colored output options of other hg commands.

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