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Bat[1] can also colorize man pages quite nicely. The advantage being it will also highlight C code etc. [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

In the past years, I have actually experienced Hacktoberfest as a really great event - both as a contributor as well as a maintainer. The recent events sadden me, but I also understand why these changes were necessary. I just opted in to Hacktoberfest PRs for two of my projects: bat and fd. For bat, I opened three special issues for Hacktoberfest in order to help contributors who are completely new to the open source world: - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1211 - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1213 - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1216 Curious to see how this works out. The first PRs are already coming in :-)

bat is essentially a fancier version of cat. It's fully backward compatible but supports syntax highlighting, paging and has git integration. It's written by the same developer as fd https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

bat is another great alternative https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

One of the biggest upgrades from using fish is syntax highlighting / autocompletion. You can get fish-style syntax highlighting and autocomplete in zsh (which has the advantage of being more interoperable with bash generally): [zsh-syntax-highlighting](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting) [zsh-autosuggestions](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions) Poster mentioned "modern alternatives exist" with good colorization options. Some of my favorite colorized feature-rich alternatives: ls -> [exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) cat -> [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) du -> [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) diff -> [delta](https://github.com/dandavison/delta) In combination with all of the above, [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) suddenly becomes a syntax-highlighter preview-pane via leveraging bat (or delta

I have been using bat and exa along with alacritty for a while. All of them are pretty good https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/ogham/exa

Delta[0] applies syntax highlighting to the code sections of git and diff output, and uses background colors (instead of +/-) to indicate added / removed content. It's written in Rust, and uses the syntect[1] highlighting library. That's the same library that bat[2] uses, so delta supports all the same color themes, and any bat configuration that you already have in place (environment variables, custom themes/language support) is automatically honored by delta. Delta also infers and highlights substrings that differ between lines (similar to Github, Gitlab and other diff viewers) and optionally cleans up the raw diff output slightly to make it more human readable. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] https://github.com/trishume/syntect [2] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/

Yes, people normally publish their crates to crates.io and call it a day, see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat or https://github.com/ogham/exa

Delta[0] applies syntax highlighting to the code sections of git and diff output, and uses background colors (instead of +/-) to indicate added / removed content. It's written in Rust, and uses the same syntax highlighting library as bat[1]. In fact, any bat configuration that you already have in place (environment variables, custom themes/language support) is automatically honored by delta. Delta also infers and highlights substrings that differ between lines (similar to Github, Gitlab and other diff viewers) and removes visual clutter from Git and diff output. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/

A lot of widely used recent CLIs have been implemented in Go or Rust, e.g. I don't think I would choose C for such a task these days. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker https://github.com/ogham/exa https://github.com/docker/cli https://github.com/cli/cli

Delta[0] applies syntax highlighting to the code sections of git and diff output, and uses background colors (instead of +/-) to indicate added / removed content. It's written in Rust, and uses the same syntax highlighting library as bat[1]. In fact, any bat configuration that you already have in place (color theme, custom themes/language support) is automatically honored by delta. Delta also infers and highlights substrings that differ between lines (similar to Github, Gitlab and other diff viewers) and removes visual clutter from Git and diff output. [0] https://github.com/dandavison/delta [1] http://github.com/sharkdp/bat/

Looks like really cool and useful project. Is it usable on Windows though? I can't press Shift key to enter ":" for commands. Seems like a dealbreaker. I tested it on WSL and Ubuntu on VM and Shift works there. Anyway. This look super cool. I'm a Windows guy but have been using terminal more lately with tools like https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and they work great on Windows (plus are easily installable by https://scoop.sh/). Hope the Windows story will improve for Broot to. Some suggestions after very quick look (except not working Shift key on Windows). * Screen refreshing and general experience is really slow. Hold arrow key for couple of seconds and see that refreshing can't catch up. The best performance is on standard windows cmd, a bit worse on new "Windows Termin

Yeah so many CLI tools in Rust: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/ogham/exa