🐛 delta doesn't page in Windows Terminal

[vikhik]

Discussed in https://github.com/dandavison/delta/discussions/1387

I'm getting the something similar to https://github.com/dandavison/delta/discussions/1387 on Windows 11/Powershell, even after using winget install -e jftuga.less.

But only with the common git lg alias: https://gist.github.com/johanmeiring/3002458

Repro:

1. winget install -e jftuga.less
2. winget install -e dandavison.delta
3. git config --global core.pager delta
4. git config --global interactive.diffFilter "delta --color-only"
5. git config --global delta.navigate true
6. git config --global merge.conflictStyle zdiff3
7. restart shell, just in case
8. git log --color --graph --abbrev-commit --oneline (works as expected)
9. git lg (prints entire repo, no paging)

So it seems broken with --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset'

[vikhik]

Actually - this appears to be more related to the terminal itself?

Doing git lg in the vscode terminal window works totally fine - but using either command in Windows Terminal is printing the whole log!

My bad - I was testing this on two different terminals and thinking it would be identical due to them both using Powershell.

Therfore... Delta doesn't work with Windows Terminal?

[dandavison]

Hi @vikhik, I'm guessing the problem is that in your Windows Terminal, delta is not finding an executable named "less"? You could investigate by using delta's --pager flag to specify an absolute path to less (all delta flags can be set in git config also, so that would be something like git config --global delta.pager AbsolutePathToLess.

[vikhik]

So, for what it's worth, less does correctly run:

I checked where less.exe is, and ran git config --global delta.pager "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\less.exe" - but I still have the same issue.