Ron via Talk wrote on 2025-09-03 23:06:
There's another one though that actually looks useful and might just replace cat & less: `batcat`
Found a bit of a show-stopper: when examining multiple files with `batcat`, all files get concatenated then displayed. Files are unchanged, of course, but it's impossible to :n or :p to switch next / previous files like in `less`. Took me this long to realize why it's called a replacement for `cat` not for `less`. It has its own pager but this is a fairly important feature to be missing. I'm going to continue using it as a replacement for `man` because of the colourization. Works well in `fish` but haven't figured out `bash` yet, needs an alias like: alias man='/usr/bin/man "$@" | batcat -l man' and after a couple failed attempts, decided it does not matter since I use `fish`.