ov

Feature-rich terminal pager

Features

ov provides more convenient functions by separating text, not just the pager function to display at terminal size. It is particularly suitable for displaying table-formatted text.

• Can open large files quickly.
• Supports fixed header line display (both wrapped and unwrapped).
• Supports column mode that recognizes columns by delimiter.
• In column mode, there is a column rainbow mode that colors each column.
• Supports fixed-width columns instead of delimiters.
• Supports section division by delimiter, and movement by section.
• Supports header lines of sections, and the header line can be multiple lines.
• Can dynamically switch between wrapping and not wrapping.
• Supports alternate row styling.
• Shortcut keys are customizable.
• Decorative styles are customizable.
• Supports follow mode (like tail -f).
• Supports follow mode by file name (like tail -F).
• Supports follow section that is displayed when the section is updated.
• Supports following multiple files and switching when updated (follow-all).
• Supports execution of commands that display stdout and stderr separately (exec).
• Supports watch mode that periodically reads files.
• Supports watch in exec mode (equivalent to watch command).
• Supports incremental search and regular expression search.
• Supports filter search to display only matched lines (or non-matching lines).
• Supports multi-color that highlights multiple words individually.
• Better support for Unicode and East Asian widths.
• Supports compressed files (gzip, bzip2, zstd, lz4, xz).

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