add a decorations alias

[lyndell]

An alias for --decorations always so I can pipe the decorations when doing something like bat FILE | gview -. …but without the ^M's.

[sharkdp]

Sounds good to me. Which flag would you suggest? You also want colors to be enabled, right? (not just grid, line numbers, changes).

[lyndell]

-d appears available. Colors could be a problem in gview or text/plain MIME type, though it might be nice for someone dumping to monospace HTML. Maybe use -h or --html for an HTML dump with colors. Grid and line numbers would be fine for a pretty-print cat or head alternative. bat FILE | gview - is the use-case time I would use.

[sharkdp]

Colors could be a problem in gview or text/plain MIME type, though it might be nice for someone dumping to monospace HTML. Maybe use -h or --html for an HTML dump with colors.

How is this related to the feature in question here? We are not planning to add a HTML output feature to bat. Note that there are thing like ansi2html.

Maybe I don't yet understand your use case. What do you use … | giew - for? Is bats paging option not working for you?

[lyndell]

gviewis an excellent file viewer, especially when I want to break out of the Terminal window. Concatenating the files with bat decorations makes the distinct file and line numbers clear. One example is viewing Kubernetes with bat pod.yaml deployment.yaml service.yaml | gview -. There are times I'd rather use that in stead of -o or -Oongview`. It makes the search and navigation easier.

[alexanderkarlis]

I was hoping to give this issue a shot. But I noticed that there already is an alias flag for -d (diff). Would it be a good idea to add it as -D instead of -d? @sharkdp

[lyndell]

Sounds good to me.

[sharkdp]

If this enables --color=always and --decorations=always, we could also use -c, as the major thing (for me) would be the colorized output, not the decorations.

[sharkdp]

Closed via #1141 by @alexanderkarlis

[sharkdp]

Released in v0.16.0.