bat VS glow

I page man (and many other things) through bat[0] which improves my experience.

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

my cat replacement (bat), shows the changed lines

bat (for enhanced preview in search)

Have you heard of the command-line tool bat, written in Rust? bat is a command-line tool similar to cat that displays file contents in the terminal, but with additional features like line numbering, syntax highlighting, and paging.

bat

Perhaps interesting (for some) to note that hyperfine is from the same author as at least a few other "ne{w,xt} generation" command line tools (that could maybe be seen as part of "rewrite it in Rust", but I don't want to paint the author with a brush they disagree with!!): fd (find alternative; https://github.com/sharkdp/fd), bat ("supercharged version of the cat command"; https://github.com/sharkdp/bat), and hexyl (hex viewer; https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl). (And certainly others I've missed!)

Pointing this out because I myself appreciate comments that do this.

For myself, `fd` is the one most incorporated into my own "toolbox" -- used it this morning prior to seeing this thread on hyperfine! So, thanks for all that, sharkdp if you're reading!

Ok, end OT-ness.

i like bat, but they also link over to delta :D

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat?tab=readme-ov-file#git-diff

I don't know why (other than being a Gen X nerd) but I have a bizarre affinity for nicely-written TUI apps of late! Things like btop++ that respond to mouse clicks and smoothly reflow when the terminal window is resized etc...

Shout-out to Charmbracelet's stuff such as Glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) and Gum (https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum) for rendering markdown nicely in the terminal and for using TUI in your shell scripts

I really enjoy `glow`, it makes me smile when I use it:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

It's a commandline markdown viewer/renderer.

Glow Github

FYI if you pipe that to glow via adding `| glow -` at the end, it will pretty-print it in the Terminal

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

Charm makes a nice tool: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

To get started, install Mods and check out some of the examples below. Since Mods has built-in Markdown formatting, you may also want to grab Glow to give the output some pizzazz.

I recently started using markdown in neovim (with an LSP) along with https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow to view markdown / navigate. Does everything I used to use Obsidian for minus the links / graph functionality which I don't really need and it's pretty snappy on an old Lenovo. Very customizable as well.