Bat: How to configure bat to clean screen after showing a man page

[f-squirrel]

I've configured bat to be man pager(export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'").
It works perfectly but when I press q the content of the man page is still shown in the terminal.
The default man pagers like less or more remove the page from the terminal.

Is there any way to configure bat to have the same behavior?

[sharkdp]

Thank you for your report. That is not the case for me.

Can you please post the output of the script at https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/diagnostics/info.sh in order for us to get more information about your system?

[f-squirrel]

@sharkdp , thank you for quick reply, please see the results below:

zsh ./info.sh
system
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**$ uname -srm**
Darwin 19.5.0 x86_64

**$ sw_vers**
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.15.5
BuildVersion:   19F101

bat
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**$ bat --version**
bat 0.15.4

**$ env**
PAGER=less

bat_config
----------

bat_wrapper
-----------

No wrapper script for 'bat'.

bat_wrapper_function
--------------------

No wrapper function for 'bat'.

No wrapper function for 'cat'.

tool
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**$ less --version**
less 487 (POSIX regular expressions)

[sharkdp]

Ok, I can actually reproduce it with this version of less (487 is quite old).

You can try to set

export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p --pager=\"less -FR\"'"

without the -X option for less.

[f-squirrel]

@sharkdp , it works like a charm!
Thank you!