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Re:I made a terminal pager by CGamesPlay on Thursday April 16, 2026 @07:10AM (#47791376)
Bat just uses less internally. And it deliberately breaks less’ handling of ^C, annoyingly.
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Re:I made a terminal pager by indentit on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:33PM (#47798364)
Bat has an option to use a built-in pager, a Rust crate called minus
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Re:I made a terminal pager by CGamesPlay on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:44PM (#47801958)
Didn't know that! I tried it and it doesn't work for me, sadly. Test case: `seq 1 100 | bat --pager=builtin` Result: immediate exit, no output printed at all.

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1053

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