This is what I do personally:
$ cat ~/bin/rgp
#!/bin/sh
exec rg -p "$@" | less -RFX
This is what I do personally:
$ cat ~/bin/rgp
#!/bin/sh
exec rg -p "$@" | less -RFX
hi @burntsushi,
I use windows : didn't understand what you mean by "install `bat`" to use a pager.I use cygwin and WSL for my unix needs. I have more and less in cygwin for use in windows.
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
I'm sure you know but windows command prompt always came with its inbuilt pager -- more. So, you could always do "dir | more" or "rg -p "%*" | more ". (more is good with colors without flags)
I didn't! I'm not a Windows user. Colors are half the battle, so that's good. Will it only appear if paging is actually needed? That's what the flags to `less` do in my wrapper script above. They are rather critical for this use case.
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.
I'd recommend ov for Windows users.
https://github.com/noborus/ov
bat on Windows does page, but I believe it's only available on Choco and not winget.
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.
Ah, thanks for doing the footwork.