From 218afc30ac960fa33ac6f5e50ced4fe9e0e085e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cyphercodes <cyphercodes@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 06:29:43 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Respect paging mode for list languages

---
 CHANGELOG.md               |  1 +
 src/bin/bat/main.rs        |  8 +++-----
 tests/integration_tests.rs | 16 +++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0e2fc216..a55e31c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 - Syntax highlighting for Python files using uv as script runner in shebang #3689 (@janlarres)
 
 ## Bugfixes
+- Fix `--list-languages` respecting `--paging=never`, see #3828 (@cyphercodes)
 - `--strip-ansi`: also strip 8-bit C1 introducers (U+0090, U+0098, U+009B, U+009D, U+009E, U+009F) and DCS/SOS/PM/APC sequence bodies, which previously passed through. See #3729 (@curious-rabbit)
 - Fix `--ignored-suffix` not falling back to first-line/shebang detection when the ignored suffix is also a registered extension (e.g. `--ignored-suffix .txt` on a shebang script), see #2745 and #3816 (@adnrivera)
 - Fix `capacity overflow` panic when printing a snip separator at `--terminal-width=1` with multiple line ranges. Closes #3803, see #3804 (@leeewee)
diff --git a/src/bin/bat/main.rs b/src/bin/bat/main.rs
index c8bbd368..705a28b9 100644
--- a/src/bin/bat/main.rs
+++ b/src/bin/bat/main.rs
@@ -427,11 +427,9 @@ fn run() -> Result<bool> {
             if app.matches.get_flag("list-languages") {
                 let languages: String = get_languages(&config, cache_dir)?;
                 let inputs: Vec<Input> = vec![Input::from_reader(Box::new(languages.as_bytes()))];
-                let plain_config = Config {
-                    style_components: StyleComponents::new(StyleComponent::Plain.components(false)),
-                    paging_mode: PagingMode::QuitIfOneScreen,
-                    ..Default::default()
-                };
+                let mut plain_config = config.clone();
+                plain_config.style_components =
+                    StyleComponents::new(StyleComponent::Plain.components(false));
                 run_controller(inputs, &plain_config, cache_dir)
             } else if app.matches.get_flag("list-themes") {
                 list_themes(&config, config_dir, cache_dir, app.theme_options())?;
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests.rs b/tests/integration_tests.rs
index 33de3fbf..124a9e5b 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests.rs
+++ b/tests/integration_tests.rs
@@ -626,12 +626,18 @@ fn list_themes_to_piped_output() {
 }
 
 #[test]
+#[serial]
 fn list_languages() {
-    bat()
-        .arg("--list-languages")
-        .assert()
-        .success()
-        .stdout(predicate::str::contains("Rust").normalize());
+    mocked_pagers::with_mocked_versions_of_more_and_most_in_path(|| {
+        bat()
+            .env("PAGER", mocked_pagers::from("echo pager-output"))
+            .arg("--list-languages")
+            .arg("--paging=never")
+            .assert()
+            .success()
+            .stdout(predicate::str::contains("Rust").normalize())
+            .stdout(predicate::str::contains("pager-output").not());
+    });
 }
 
 #[test]