Piping to pager (eg. less -R) loses all color

[rockorager]

I must be missing something obvious, but when I pipe any output of lipgloss to a pager, I lose all color formatting. I'm aware I need to use a -R flag on less in order to preserve escape codes. However, I can pipe straight to vim and see that no codes are preserved.

A minimal example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss"
)

func main() {
	style := lipgloss.NewStyle().Foreground(lipgloss.Color("4"))
	fmt.Println(style.Render("Hello, world"))
}

$ go run ./

Output to terminal

(In blue) Hello, world

$ go run ./ | less -R

Output to less -R

(No color) Hello, world

Expected output to less -R

(In blue) Hello, world

Am I missing something??

[muesli]

lipgloss (or rather termenv in the background) detects that the output isn't connected to a terminal and strips the styling. You can either set a color profile manually or set an environment variable which enforces colored output:

lipgloss.SetColorProfile(termenv.TrueColor)

CLICOLOR_FORCE=1 go run .

[rockorager]

Thanks!