athityakumar/colorls

Adding a flag for paging

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#171 opened on Jan 1, 2018

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Description

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When piping the output from colorls to more or less, the colors are lost and I see no way of retaining them. How about adding a flag to colorls directly that does paging when needed?

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  • Type of issue :
    • Installation
    • Font-related
    • Feature request
    • Bug in existing feature
    • Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation

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Research direction
Implement a command line flag (e.g., pager) that pipes output to a pager like 'less' while preserving colors.
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
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Fresh
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Mostly clear
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RubyGit
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60