Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager

Re:Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager by throwawaybutwhy on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:11AM (#34246390)

Suppose it is a technicality, but if it can't handle large (larger than available memory, that is) files [0], it's not a pager.

[0] https://github.com/noborus/ov/issues/201

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Re:Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager by benj111 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:41AM (#34246842)

It is a technicality and it is still a pager.

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Re:Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager by throwawaybutwhy on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:12AM (#34247337)

You are right, of course, and I stand corrected, performance and/or ability to fully replace less have no bearing on whether a program is a pager.

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Re:Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:58PM (#34249814)

Nah I still wouldn't call it a pager. They used the correct term themselves as "text viewer".

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Re:Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager by noborus on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:03PM (#34250628)

I see memory efficiency as an issue, but not as a priority issue as it was 30 years ago.

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Re:Show HN: Ov – feature rich terminal pager by ktpsns on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:31PM (#34252029)

In data science/industry it frequently happens for people to open files bigger then the available memory in less. "Big data" is a somewhat independent concept of the fact that RAM was smaller 30 years ago.

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