[help] How can I force to show output at top of the terminal?

[avatar-lavventura]

When I pipe into delta it shows the output bottom of the terminal instead of showing it top of the page.

Example output:

When I press to n it is corrected as:

By defualt is it possible to force delta to show its output at top of the terminal?

[dandavison]

Hi there, it's actually the pager less that is responsible for this behaviour, not delta. Here's what you need to do:

1. Work out the exact command-line flags that you want to pass to less to get the behaviour you want. For example, you could use a command like this:

yes | head -n 2 | LESS= less <your command line flags here>

2. Make sure that delta is using those flags when invoking less. Unfortunately there are various ways of doing this. Let's suppose you want -FRS. you can store them in the LESS env var: export LESS=-FRS or you can set an env var: export DELTA_PAGER='less -FRS, or you can even use the delta --pager='less -FRS' command or use pager = less -FRS in the [delta] section of your gitconfig.

Sorry there are so many ways; I promise there is a reason for each one!

[avatar-lavventura]

No need to sorry :) I have tried: yes | head -n 2 | delta --pager='less -r +A' and it worked like charm.