[pymvpa] object_name? in IPython not returning colored output

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

interesting -- thank you Jan for sharing.

In my experience I have not observed that ... because long ago I set my
LESS environment variables to

$> export | grep -e LESS -e PAGER
GIT_PAGER='less --no-init --quit-if-one-screen'
LESS='--ignore-case --LONG-PROMPT --force --raw-control-chars --SILENT'
LESSCLOSE='/usr/bin/lesspipe %s %s'
LESSHISTFILE=/home/yoh/.var/less/history
LESSOPEN='| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s'
PAGER='less -R'

so in my case I use -R (not -r) which might be more preferable since it takes
care only about ANSI color codes (although I also have --raw-control-chars in
general for less).

Cheers!

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Jan Derrfuss wrote:

> Dear All,

> It took me a while to figure this one out, so I thought I'll post
> the solution to the mailing list in case someone else has the same
> issues.

> When I used object_name? or object_name?? in IPython, I frequently
> (but not always) had output with color escape sequences looking like
> this:
> ESC[0;31mType:          ESC[0mAttributesCollector
> (...)

> After a while, I realized that this only happens with longer output.
> It turned out that the underlying problem is that longer output is
> passed to a pager (e.g., less) before it is displayed. For example,
> in my .bashrc I had set the pager to less:
> export PAGER=less

> The problem was solved by using less -r instead:
> PAGER='less -r'

> Best,
> Jan

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