bat (and less) output containing "^G" after clickable texts (ArchLinux-Alacritty)

[DanielKaleby]

When I try to use bat or less to display a file that contains clickable text (using the ANSI code \x1B]8), the characters "^G" are always displayed at the end of these texts, this only happens with the "links", the bold and italic texts are displayed correctly, I managed to solve this using the --raw-control-chars flag of less but this brought another problem , in which some lines of the displayed file simply disappear, and when I scroll down and then up, these lines start to appear, but in place of others (it's difficult to explain, but it's like that)
For the other ANSI formatting to work I needed to export one variable using export LESSUTFCHARDEF=E000-F8FF:p,F0000-FFFFD:p,100000-10FFFD:p so I imagine the problem is that something else is missing within this variable, but what exactly?
more can display everything correctly but I really like how bat+less does things and I wanted to be able to work around this problem and use it.

To use this less flag inside the bat I launch the command like this: echo "$FILE" | bat --pager="less -raw-control-chars" --plain ($FILE=file contents)

[keith-hall]

I managed to solve this using the --raw-control-chars flag of less but this brought another problem , in which some lines of the displayed file simply disappear, and when I scroll down and then up, these lines start to appear, but in place of others (it's difficult to explain, but it's like that)

This reminds me a little of another problem with less that was reported recently. It may be worth trying less with the -c flag as well like #2973

[keith-hall]

also, just to check - which version of bat are you using? I guess I'm mainly curious if it includes #2544

[DanielKaleby]

also, just to check - which version of bat are you using? I guess I'm mainly curious if it includes #2544

less 643 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
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For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
Home page: https://greenwoodsoftware.com/less

[DanielKaleby]

It's actually quite inconsistent, it only happens with some files (and only with those that have more lines than my terminal emulator can show)..
(And also the -c flag had no effect in my tests)

[eth-p]

Would it be possible to provide a sample file where this happens? I'm not able to reproduce the issue on my setup.

[DanielKaleby]

It was an error in my files, it has nothing to do with bat/less (I thought that was it because this didn't happen in other pagers).
Closing.