| less | bat | |
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| 3 | 195 | |
| 512 | 46,630 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.5 | 9.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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less
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Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager
First of all please keep in mind that "less" is wonderfully updated https://github.com/gwsw/less
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A list of new(ish) command line tools – Julia Evans
Oh wow, that's a pretty new feature! It was added in v569, 2020[1].
[1]: https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/6a070fc53799fb86e0fe3880...
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Adventures with man color, or how I removed hack from git
Yeap. That's mentioned in my post. And so is the bug I found in less, which they fixed pretty promptly.
bat
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Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'
That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
View on GitHub
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5 Developer CLI Essentials
4. bat
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Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar.
As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it.
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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MacOS tools to make your life easier
Try bat (it’s like cat but better) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
- Bat: A cat clone for syntax highlighting in the terminal
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🐚🦀Comandos shell reescritos em Rust
bat
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Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools
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 - Bat: A Cat Clone with Wings
What are some alternatives?
moar - Moar is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor
Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
kanten - the enlightened pager. less paging. more content. read widely.
awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.
ov - 🎑Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer. It is a so-called terminal pager.
iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty
consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻