[anjanb]

hi @burntsushi,

   fan of your tool. like it's speed and defaults.

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.

[burntsushi]

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

[anjanb]

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)

[burntsushi]

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.

[ilyagr]

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.

[ttyprintk]

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.

[ilyagr]

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.

[ttyprintk]

Ah, thanks for doing the footwork.