pager about glow HOT 5 CLOSED

Just wanted to chime in...glow works great like this:

add this to your ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.aliases file:

# view .md files in terminal with glow
mdless() {
    glow "$@" -s dark | less -r
}

Then when you close and re-open your terminal, just type

mdless README.md

or whatever filename you want to be paged.

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You could automatically use the pager from $PAGER (or less by default) if the content doesn't fit on the screen. A-la how systemctl or git log work. And maybe even a flag to force pager off? Again, just like git --no-pager log

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glow detects not printing to a terminal and disables the default styling. You can however enforce it:

glow -s dark | less -r

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Duly noted, with my thanks.

I will note that this behavior seems inconsistent to me.
I would argue that a separate flag should enable sending of control chars through the pipe - either that, or turn off styling by default - either would result in more predictable behavior.

Either way, cool utility, thanks for making it.

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I've added the -p flag to glow, which automatically pipes the output to your $PAGER (or less -r if that's not set).

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