[help] How can I prevent backslash \ printed as ^H?

[avatar-lavventura]

I am working on a latex file where I have a lot of back slash character followed by b like \bash{string} or \bottomrule.

delta shows \b as ^H :

I was not able to figure out cause of this error. Is it possible to prevent this?

my config:

[delta] 
        pager = less +A
        navigate = true
        light = false
        syntax-theme = Dracula
        line-numbers = false
        side-by-side = false
        minus-style = syntax "#3f0001"
        plus-style = bold syntax "#003800"
        whitespace-error-style = 22 reverse
        hunk-header-decoration-style = omit
        features = line-numbers highlight-removed side-by-side diff-so-fancy 
        markEmptyLines = false
        commit-style = yellow
        whitespace-error-style = reverse magenta
        file-style = omit

[dandavison]

Hi @avatar-lavventura, can you provide the raw input to delta that causes the problem? E.g. git diff > /tmp/diff.txt and paste the contents of /tmp/diff.txt into this issue.

[avatar-lavventura]

Sure:

diff --git a/ama/eblocbroker.pdf b/ama/eblocbroker.pdf
index d532014..ab6ae53 100644
Binary files a/ama/eblocbroker.pdf and b/ama/eblocbroker.pdf differ
diff --git a/ama/eblocbroker.tex b/ama/eblocbroker.tex
index 5bbfd6c..5104564 100644
--- a/ama/eblocbroker.tex
+++ b/ama/eblocbroker.tex
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ The \bash{brokerd} performs the following steps:
-        %
+        % %

[dandavison]

This works for me. Does it work for you if you disable paging (e.g. git diff | delta --paging=never)?

[avatar-lavventura]

git diff | delta --paging=never trims \b , I just see: ash{alper} alper

[avatar-lavventura]

Could you have a look into :

diff --git a/ama/new.tex b/ama/new.tex
index 06f0d3d..07b18a7 100644
--- a/ama/new.tex
+++ b/ama/new.tex
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-\bash{alper}
+\bash{alper} alper
+%%

The output I have:

[dandavison]

[dandavison]

I think this is a problem with your pager (less) or your terminal emulator. Does the bug occur if you are not using a pager?

[avatar-lavventura]

I do :-( // For example : echo "\bash" | command delta shows ^Hash

[dandavison]

What about git diff | cat?

[avatar-lavventura]

Looks fine:

$ git diff | cat
diff --git a/ama/new.txt b/ama/new.txt
index 06f0d3d..0811a92 100644
--- a/ama/new.txt
+++ b/ama/new.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-\bash{alper}
+\bash{alper} is sad

[avatar-lavventura]

Not sure how but git diff --color-moved=dimmed_zebra -w --ignore-blank-lines -U0 --ignore-space-at-eol HEAD | ifne delta --minus-style 'syntax bold auto' | ifne tail -n +2 | delta works !