Re: apt show escape characters
On 2025-11-08 09:53:44 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 21:38:17 +0000, Tim Woodall wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > If I run
> > >
> > > (unset LESS; apt show bash)
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > env -u LESS apt show bash
> > >
> > > then the raw control characters are passed through directly to the
> > > terminal as intended.
> > >
> > >
> > Or maybe add -R?
> >
> > I have it set to -RX.
>
> That may be acceptable for many users. I don't want that as a default,
> though. There are far too many times when I use less on a file/stream
> that may or may not contain binary data, and in those cases I *want*
> the binary data to be presented as reverse-video ESC and so on, rather
> than potentially destroying my terminal.
-R should not destroy your terminal. This is not -r.
I also use "less" often on binary data, and I haven't seen any issue
with -R (I use LESS="-ciMR -j3" by default).
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