bat

I referenced bat because I've found that suggesting cygwin sometimes provokes a negative reaction. The GP also mentioned needing to install GNU tooling as if it were a negative. bat is fancy pager written in Rust. It's on GitHub: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height): https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages # in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc alias bathelp='bat --plain --language=help' help() { "$@" --help 2>&1 | bathelp } This highlights the help output with colors so it looks nicer, works with most help outputs, as it highlights the first part which is the flag/argument in one color and the description in another color

I've been using bat as a cat replacement for a while now. It includes paging, syntax highlighting, line numbers, and is generally very performant. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

Since we're talking alternatives: - https://github.com/swsnr/mdcat - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

I would be curious to see how it compares to similar tools: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/alternatives....

Similar to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat but Go instead of Rust

I think you’re conflating different projects. There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacements. Some examples are - ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa) - grep => ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) - cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) - tree => broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot) The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).

Does not support markdown. ov is a pager, so there is no rendering of specific files. But it can be used as a bat(https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) pager. It can also be created using the ov(oviewer) package. Here's a sample: https://github.com/noborus/mdviewer

I'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) - https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (uses `less` under the hood, syntax highlighting and git diffs) - https://linux.die.net/man/1/lesskey (add parameters to `less`) - https://github.com/ivanov/kanten (looks abandoned) - "Just use vim" (and vim's paging is really good, so this is viable, in fact probably the most viable so far) `less` is a great program, despite being old there aren't really many flaws. It's one of those tools that don't really need updates or improvements. But I do think there are a few features which would be nice to have (automatic ANSI coloring, tailing, syntax highlighting, support for files like sqlite and tar - which of which are in ov). The one thing whic