Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes:

> On 15/09/2026 22:39, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 9/15/26 13:39, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Your grep coloring is conflicting with the URLs used in --help output.
>> Wait, why does realpath --help output those OSC 8 escape sequences
>> when
>> the output is to a pipe, not to a terminal? Surely that's the real bug here.
>
> Because I thought it was useful that way when piping --help to | less -R
> (less is generally configured to use -R by default
> since it's a lot more useful like that to display colors etc.)
> Doing that also maintains the highlighting.

It would also be needed for the man pages too, though I guess the
IN_HELP2MAN environment variable could be used as is done for the
translation bug reporting address.

Collin



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