The eix-sync command in app-portage/eix-0.8.8 does not have the --nocolor option available to the eix command: `eix-sync --nocolor` returns the help screen. I run eix-sync as a cron job with the output mailed to me. My mail reader muddles the color escape sequences. Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > I run eix-sync as a cron job with the output mailed to me. My mail reader > muddles the color escape sequences. This is strange. If you redirect the output (i.e. if the output-device is not a tty) eix *automatically* switches off the colors unless you have changed the default of FORCE_USECOLORS. To make sure that the latter is really not set, you can temporarily add it to the environment. In my test, FORCE_USECOLORS=false eix-sync -d |cat does not output any colors (although I have changed the default of FORCE_USECOLORS in my personal /etc/eixrc).
(In reply to comment #1) Did some more investigating. My cron mailing is indeed the color-free output of eix-sync. However, the nocolor output of eix-sync seems to only suppress the codes that turn on color output. The codes that that return to uncolored text (hex '1b 5b 30 6d') are still included in the output. That escape sequence is what is muddling my mail. To see this try `eix-sync -d | vim -`, or redirect the output `eix-sync -d` to a file and view the file with hexdump. So I would change my feature request to removing ALL color escape sequences from uncolored eix output.
Thanks for reporting. The bug is fixed in eix current svn trunk (eix-0.9.2).
Thanks for fixing it.
eix-0.9.2 is in tree.
