Bat: manpage language

[patatetom]

hi,

on my Archlinux with bat installed from pacman :

$ bat --version
bat 0.12.1

$ bat -L | grep man
JSON:json,sublime-settings,sublime-menu,sublime-keymap,sublime-mousemap,sublime-theme,sublime-build,sublime-project,sublime-completions,sublime-commands,sublime-macro,sublime-color-scheme,ipynb,Pipfile.lock
Manpage:man

on an other Linux with bat installed from release bat-v0.12.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz :

$ bat --version
bat 0.12.1

$ bat -L | grep man
JSON:json,sublime-settings,sublime-menu,sublime-keymap,sublime-mousemap,sublime-theme,sublime-build,sublime-project,sublime-completions,sublime-commands,sublime-macro,sublime-color-scheme,ipynb,Pipfile.lock

regards, lacsaP.

[sharkdp]

Could you please, as advised in the issue template, run the script at ~https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/diag-tools/diagnostics/info.sh~ https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/diagnostics/info.sh (and paste the output here) to give us a little bit more information about your system (the second setup, which I guess you see as problematic).

[sharkdp]

Possible reason for this: your second system has an old (user generated) bat cache file, which you could get rid of by running bat cache --clear.

[eth-p]

I just realized I forgot to change the branch name for https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/diag-tools/diagnostics/info.sh. It should be https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/diagnostics/info.sh, sorry. Will make a PR to fix that.

[patatetom]

hi,

thanks, bat cache --clear (followed by bat cache --build ››) solved the problem and now, bat -L | grep man returns Manpage:man as expected.

regards, lacsaP.

[sharkdp]

I was wondering if we should try to prevent surprising behavior like this by adding a "version" field to the generated binary dumps. This way, we could detect if the cached files have been created by a previous version of bat and warn the user.

[sharkdp]

I'm going to close this ticket and open a new one (#882) for the "version" field in the generated binary cache files.