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Detects when the PAGER environment variable is set to a pager that doesn't support ANSI color codes (like 'more', 'pg', or 'cat' without -R flag) and automatically strips color codes from help output. This addresses FreeBSD issues where escape sequences may appear as literal text when using incompatible pagers. Co-authored-by: swissspidy <841956+swissspidy@users.noreply.github.com>
Tests verify that ANSI escape codes are properly stripped when using pagers that don't support colors (cat, more, pg). Co-authored-by: swissspidy <841956+swissspidy@users.noreply.github.com>
The regex now correctly detects pagers specified with full paths like /usr/bin/more or /bin/cat. Co-authored-by: swissspidy <841956+swissspidy@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Fix bold escape codes not displayed correctly on FreeBSD
Strip ANSI codes for pagers without color support
Feb 3, 2026
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- Added tests for pagers with full paths (/usr/bin/more, /bin/cat) - Added inverse test cases for pagers with color support (less -R, most -R) - Verifies ANSI codes are preserved when -R flag is present Co-authored-by: swissspidy <841956+swissspidy@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Removed pg pager test as pg is not available on all systems - Removed inverse tests for less -R and most -R as they fail in CI due to TTY detection and piping behavior with interactive pagers - Kept core tests for cat and more which reliably verify ANSI code stripping functionality Co-authored-by: swissspidy <841956+swissspidy@users.noreply.github.com>
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<issue_title>Bold (and possibly color) escape codes are not honored under FreeBSD.</issue_title>
✅<issue_description>## Bug Report
Describe the current, buggy behavior
When running
php wp-cli.pharfrom the command line (I haven't copied it to /usr/local/bin yet) the bold color sequences seem to not be displaying correctly. I see something like:Which I think are the ANSI codes for "bold" and "reset".
I am on FreeBSD, which I know is not the most commonly tested platform, but all my other things that use ANSI seem to work okay. For examples:
man ls,alpine,lsitself, and the like.This is fixed if I set
--no-color, however, my problem is that I think the embedded escape sequences aren't being honored on my system somehow. OR they didn't survive being stuffed into the .phar file somehow. (Usually, when I copy paste onscreen escape sequences, it doesn't work, here it does).Describe how other contributors can replicate this bug
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.pharphp wp-cli.phar.Describe what you expect as the correct outcome
Either plaintext output, or bold output.
Let us know what environment you are running this on
Provide a possible solution
Provide additional context/screenshots
xtermandxterm-256color....as well as various transmogrifications of the above.
In no case do I get bold text.
One possible hint is that FreeBSD still uses termcap, and not terminfo, as most of the linuxes do, so if the code is doing something using terminfo to tell if color is supported, this may be an issue. (I don't see anything about TERM, termcap, or terminfo in the code).
Add any other context about the problem here.
If applicable, add screenshots to help explain (you can just drag&drop images into the Github issue).
</issue_description>
Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)
@danielbachhuber Thanks for the report, @thegushi !I trust you in that something must be buggy here, but I haven't the faintest idea what it is.
Here's where the sections are made bold:
wp-cli/php/commands/src/Help_Command.php
Line 92 in db3d01f
WP_CLI::colorize()callsColors::colorize()under the hood:wp-cli/php/class-wp-cli.php
Line 217 in db3d01f
Here's how that class is implemented:
https://github.com/wp-cli/php-cli-tools/blob/d788a2c79e02f2f735fbb2b9a53db94d0e1b...
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