less VS glow

Compare less vs glow and see what are their differences.

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! πŸ’…πŸ» (by charmbracelet)
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less glow
3 60
512 14,825
- 1.7%
9.5 6.7
5 days ago 13 days ago
C Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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less

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

glow

Posts with mentions or reviews of glow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing less and glow you can also consider the following projects:

moar - Moar is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!

pcstat - Page Cache stat: get page cache stats for files on Linux

kanten - the enlightened pager. less paging. more content. read widely.

mdless

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

mdcat - cat for markdown

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

glow.nvim - A markdown preview directly in your neovim.

consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read