# Color in Mac OS X's Terminal for RI **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 3, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/color-in-mac-os-xs-terminal-for-ri/178378 "2009-11-03T19:42:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![benoitdinocourt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@benoitdinocourt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benoitdinocourt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/color-in-mac-os-xs-terminal-for-ri/178378/1 "2009-11-03T19:42:50Z")
Hi Rubyists, I’m wondering why I can’t have colors for `ri` in my Terminal.app Well, I tried this command (ri -f ansi Hash) with 3 interpreters: ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0] =\> doesn’t work, I get some ESC[1m ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-07-18 trunk 24186) [i386-darwin9.8.0] =\> doesn’t work, I get some ESC[1m jruby 1.4.0RC3 (ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 174) (2009-10-28 d0f6289) (Java HotSpot™ Client VM 1.5.0\_20) [i386-java] =\> WORK (but not so cool colors… that’s another subject…) The difference I see is jruby output directly to the STDOUT, while the ruby interpreters use `less`, which seem to not work good with these colors… In fact I’m resolving myself my own problem … Using -T(–no-pager) send directly to STDOUT, what works. So my question is: why `less` doesn’t accept colors? P.S.: Anyway I’ve aliased ri to “ri --no-pager -f ansi”, and I’m happy since I don’t like so much these pagers… Enjoy Ruby ! ---
**Author:** ![benoitdinocourt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@benoitdinocourt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benoitdinocourt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/color-in-mac-os-xs-terminal-for-ri/178378/2 "2009-11-03T20:40:51Z")
Benoit D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Anyway I’ve aliased ri to “ri --no-pager -f ansi” Or alternatively export RI as ‘-T -f ansi’.