I made a terminal pager

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Post by speckx » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

Re: I made a terminal pager

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Post by pimlottc » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC

The TL;DR doesn’t really say what this new pager offers compared to less; it seems to mostly be a learning project:

> lore supports only a subset of what less does, but in a more intuitive and useful manner for my daily activity. I also find value in understanding it from the ground up, bytes to terminal views, and continuing to refine it as I learn more about what I actually want and need in a terminal pager.

Re: I made a terminal pager

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Post by gandreani » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC

I really like this post! I think it's the clearest explanation I've seen of the different characteristics of utf-8 strings

Re: I made a terminal pager

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Post by cocodill » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC

For a bubbletea application I'd expect more bubbles and tea there. But still, nice project.

Re: I made a terminal pager

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Post by vomayank » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 12:06 AM UTC

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Post by dostick » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 12:11 AM UTC

From the title I thought it’s about a dead man’s switch.

Re: I made a terminal pager

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Post by lrobinovitch » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC

vomayank wrote: post #5

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Author here!

If I were to give this post a longer title, it would be "I made a terminal pager because I needed a really good viewport component for my Go TUIs, then realized that a TUI viewport is just a mini terminal pager and I want the same text navigation and manipulation experience everywhere that I encounter long text blocks in my terminal".

I take no issue at all with `less`, it's super powerful and configurable as I call out in the post. I took the functionality I needed, made it a reusable component for Go TUIs, then made a terminal pager in the form of a Go TUI with it.