alt Hacker News>And for the UI I just pipe everything to the system's "less" command.
I never thought of that as an option. Thanks for the tip haha.
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superstarryeyes • yesterday at 12:19 PM
sometimes the simplest solution is the best! i love the unix philosophy:
Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
Write programs to work together.
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
Ideally, one should pipe into $PAGER, or, if that's missing, into "pager" (it's usually symlinked to less), or, if that's missing, into "less"/"more"/"cat", or, if even those are missing, then just write to stdout.