Most is a text pager
Most is a terminal-based pager, i.e. a program to view text files on a text terminal. Like the better-known less, it has many improvements on the historic more.
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What are the differences between most, more and less?
I'm now using Arch Linux, and find a command most works like more and less. To understand the differences between them is a confusing problem. The question Isn't less just more? mentions the differences between less and more. Do you know the…
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Is there any way of changing most keybindings to something more familiar?
most pager is nice, but its default keybindings are unlike any other.
As I don't want to learn a whole new set of keybindings for my pager (no matter how fancy and wonderful it is), is there any way of making most hotkeys feel more like vi, less and…
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Make `most` pager properly handle colours from standard‑input
How do I make the most pager properly display colours in text received from standard‑input?
Note: I'm not sure whether or not it's a bug in most.
I am not encountering the same issue with less and more, only with most, which otherwise works nicely…
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Horizontal scrolling pager with vi keys
less and most use j and k, but they don't use h and l for horizontal scrolling. Is there a way I can fix either of these to do that? or maybe an alternative tool that I could use as a pager that does it?
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How to configure the "most" pager to highlight all matches on search?
I have been using the "most" pager for couple of years,
but when searching and jumping and navigating between the matches ( with n and p ) the cursor is quite small (I barely notice it), so i'd like to wrap the whole word and highlight from the…
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ANSI escape sequence ^[[K processed by less -R but not most
I'm writing a wrapper around ack to search for code locally with some additional lines of context piped to a pager.
Here's the wrapper script ackc. Between the different examples, I'll be varying what gets passed to ack as the…
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How do I get source highlighting via source-highlight for most?
I can get source highlighting to work with lesspipe or GNU source-highlight, but both depend on environment variables that are specific to less. How would I get syntax highlighting in most?
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