Ov
Dev tools
terminal pager
SHOW HN2023
181points
48comments
#319of 3,109 in 2023
Top 11%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Performance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good documentation with examples
From 1 comment
I'm impressed by the documentation. Commonly used options with examples fairly high up, then a complete overview of all the options below that. Definitely going to give this a try.
Sakos on HN
Section feature useful for file-by-file diffs
From 1 comment
ov looks really nice and probable deserves a try. I like the section thing, it's going to be useful for diffs to go file by file. One feature I discovered recently in less that…
rakoo on HN
Objections
Not fast or memory-efficient enough for large files compared to less
From 2 comments
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
throwawaybutwhy on HNI'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) -…
armchairhacker on HN
Written in Go rather than Rust
From 1 comment
I was interested in this until I saw it was written in Go. Wonder why the author went with that instead of something saner like Rust.
DiabloD3 on HN
Requests
Syntax highlighting support
From 1 comment
I didn’t see any indication in the readme if this supports syntax highlighting. Any plans to add it?
pseufaux on HN
Config in XDG config directory by default
From 2 comments
hey OP, nice tool. can we use $HOME/config/ for the config file? keeps the home clean.
omani on HN$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is now default. thank you.
noborus on HN
Filtering like less's & command
From 2 comments
ov looks really nice and probable deserves a try. I like the section thing, it's going to be useful for diffs to go file by file. One feature I discovered recently in less that…
rakoo on HNFiltering in less is one of the features that ov doesn't have yet. I will refer to it. thank you.
noborus on HN
Questions
Markdown support?
From 1 comment
Any markdown support? I don't see any in the feature list. :(
adamredwoods on HN
Works as kitty scrollback pager?
From 1 comment
Anyone tried using this for a scrollback pager for kitty terminal? I have a convoluted nvim incantation right now I’d love to replace.
kbd on HN
Alternatives named
less
From 2 comments
I'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) -…
armchairhacker on HNANSI coloring and tailing is supported by less. Press F to start tailing. Many programs detect if they are redirected to a pipe and then stop to emit ANSI color codes.
funcDropShadow on HN
bat
From 1 comment
I'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) -…
armchairhacker on HN
lnav
From 2 comments
If the log-file viewing capabilities look interesting to you, check out lnav, which is built for that and excels at it: https://lnav.org/
href on HNI'm a fan of lnav, more for log files but incredibly useful: https://lnav.org/
adamredwoods on HN
most
From 1 comment
I'm surprised there aren't more pagers besides `less` and `more`. Alternatives I've found online: - https://linux.die.net/man/1/most (multiple files/windows at once) -…
armchairhacker on HN
moar
From 1 comment
There's also moar, written in go: - https://github.com/walles/moar
kseistrup on HN