illegal option: --ansi troubles

[effohenteee]

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Hello, first I would like to thank you for your work.

Unfortunately, I am having a bit of a problem. When I first attempted to install fzf, I received an error saying that Ruby was not installed so I installed it (Ruby version 2.3.1) and Curses (version 1.0.2) and then attempted to use the function below which I obtained from https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions that starts at line 34.

# git commit browser. needs fzf
log() {
  git log --graph --color=always \
      --format="%C(auto)%h%d %s %C(black)%C(bold)%cr" "$@" |
  fzf --ansi --no-sort --reverse --tiebreak=index --toggle-sort=\` \
      --bind "ctrl-m:execute:
                echo '{}' | grep -o '[a-f0-9]\{7\}' | head -1 |
                xargs -I % sh -c 'git show --color=always % | less -R'"
}

Upon execution I receive the error that --ansi is an illegal option.

Steps I have tried to rectify the problem:

• Update fzf repo with and without the depth option.
• Downgrade Ruby from 2.3.1 to a 1.9.3 build.
• Uninstall Ruby and Curses and install Go and attempt to build from source with instructions from here How to built from source? #300 (comment) .
• Have both Ruby and Go installed and run the install script.

Curiously, the binaries that are generated appear to be labeled properly but the --version output is incorrect as shown below. I am not sure this is related or not.

Lastly, the fzf-tmux command is not working either.

My current system is running Ubuntu 16.04 and this is a fresh install from earlier today. I have made some configuration changes but I am unsure if any of those changes could have this effect on fzf's functionality. I have probably botched something but, for the life of me, I cannot figure out what I am doing incorrectly. I am happy to provide any documentation that you may need and I would appreciate any help you can provide.

[junegunn]

You don't need to care about the Ruby version, it's no longer maintained.

When I first attempted to install fzf, I received an error saying that Ruby was not installed so I installed it

Can you post the log message? I wonder how you ended up with this. The install script should not say anything about Ruby on Linux.

Take the following steps.

1. Check the output of which fzf. And $PATH should contain ~/.fzf/bin, not ~/.fzf

2. Forget about Ruby or Go, let's just reinstall fzf as follows

   rm -rf ~/.fzf
   git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf
   ~/.fzf/install
   # Say yes to the questions

3. Your .bashrc should be now updated. Reload it: source ~/.bashrc

4. See if which fzf is pointing to ~/.fzf/bin/fzf. No? Examine your $PATH variable.

[effohenteee]

Thank you for the quick reply! All is working now after your suggestion #1.

The log said that fzf was already found in path and which fzf returned ~/bin/fzf

I deleted /bin/fzf and reinstalled using your instructions. /.fzf/bin is in the path now everything is working beautifully.

I am not sure how that file ended up there, definitely user error though. I will look into that but for now the version is showing properly and everything is working great. Thank you very much for your help.

[junegunn]

No problem.