Bat: Bat quickly exits

[borekb]

This happens to me for some files (so far, I've seen it happen for JS / TS / JSON files):

It still works for some files, e.g., README.md and yarn.lock.

I can't see a pattern yet, is there any debug info I could send? I'm on 0.9.0 and macOS Mojave.

[sharkdp]

This is probably caused by the pager. What is the value of the PAGER (and BAT_PAGER) environment variables? Can you try with --paging=never? Or try to set BAT_PAGER="less"?

[borekb]

Thanks, the output is:

$ echo $PAGER
less

$ echo $BAT_PAGER
less -RF

I've specifically set BAT_PAGER previously, can't quite remember why but plain less was not enough. Has something about this changed in 0.9.0?

[sharkdp]

We have added "Support pager command-line arguments in PAGER and BAT_PAGER" in 0.8.0 (see #352). If you have set up BAT_PAGER="less -RF" pre-0.8, it was probably just ignored. Now it will actually start less -RF which does not work if you have an old version of less (you also need -X).

[borekb]

Thanks for the hints, I've updated to less version 530 and set $BAT_PAGER to less -R which is the behavior I prefer. bat awesomeness is back!