kanten vs moar

kanten

the enlightened pager. less paging. more content. read widely. (by ivanov)

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moar

Moar is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration. (by walles)

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kanten		moar
	Project
1	Mentions	6
21	Stars	548
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	9.5
about 4 years ago	Latest Commit	22 days ago
Python	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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kanten

Posts with mentions or reviews of kanten. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2023

moar

Posts with mentions or reviews of moar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-30.

Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023

I don't believe bat is a paper; it's more of a pretty-printer that tends to call less.
Two pallets that should work on Windows are https://github.com/walles/moar (golang) and https://github.com/markbt/streampager (Rust). There might also be a newer one that uses rust, I'm unsure.
How to regex search in Windows `more`?
2 projects | /r/commandline | 31 Mar 2023

moar direct multiplatform replacement for more/less
Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2023
Moar - A pager designed to just do the right thing without any configuration
2 projects | /r/linux | 13 Nov 2022
Moar – A pager designed to just do the right thing without any configuration
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022
walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
1 project | /r/devel | 10 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kanten and moar you can also consider the following projects:

less - Less - text pager

ov - 🎑Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer. It is a so-called terminal pager.

mdviewer - Rendered display of markdown on terminal

pspg - Unix pager (with very rich functionality) designed for work with tables. Designed for PostgreSQL, but MySQL is supported too. Works well with pgcli too. Can be used as CSV or TSV viewer too. It supports searching, selecting rows, columns, or block and export selected area to clipboard.

hypergrep - Recursively search directories for a regex pattern

lnav - Log file navigator

less-Windows - GNU less compiled for Windows 10 & 11. Stand-alone version with no dependencies.

rebar - A biased barometer for gauging the relative speed of some regex engines on a curated set of tasks.