What version of bat are you using?
bat 0.15.4
Describe the bug you encountered:
Bat does not seem to highlight JSON files very well. Specifically, there's almost no highlighting at all, even though the screenshots would indicate it knows how to highlight keys differently to values in maps.
Describe what you expected to happen?
Something that looks more like the picture on #48
How did you install bat?
homebrew
system
$ uname -srm
Darwin 18.7.0 x86_64
$ sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.14.6
BuildVersion: 18G5033
bat
$ bat --version
bat 0.15.4
$ env
bat_config
bat_wrapper
No wrapper script for 'bat'.
bat_wrapper_function
No wrapper function for 'bat'.
No wrapper function for 'cat'.
tool
$ less --version
less 487 (POSIX regular expressions)
flowchartsman
All 6 comments
Yeah, that definitely doesn't look right. And it looks like it hasn't been highlighting JSON properly since the 0.13 release. Specifically, the changes in the Packages submodule pulled in with 7ba5bc78b742ba722246f49f20d9029964ddb032 seem to be the culprit.
As a side note, on a light terminal you might be better off using --theme OneHalfLight.
eth-p
on 7 Jul 2020
I normally use a dark terminal, these were taken with the vanilla MacOS terminal only to remove any possibility that something in my iterm config was the culprit. And even your 0.12.1 screenshot looks wrong: it's not highlighting anything under GlossDiv
flowchartsman
on 10 Jul 2020
Thank you for reporting this!
In order to prevent bugs like this in the future, I'd like to implement what I proposed here: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/pull/988#issuecomment-627768181 We should probably open a new ticket for that.
sharkdp
on 26 Jul 2020
Happy to help. You can count me in on the testing effort. I've been meaning to become more than barely-literate in Rust, and this seems like a good opportunity to expand.
flowchartsman
on 29 Jul 2020
That sounds great!
sharkdp
on 30 Jul 2020
@flowchartsman I have opened #1124 to address this. Let's move the discussion to that ticket.
sharkdp
on 3 Aug 2020
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Happy to help. You can count me in on the testing effort. I've been meaning to become more than barely-literate in Rust, and this seems like a good opportunity to expand.