I’d like to be able to navigate text in a pager with Vim-style modal editing (moving with hjkl and yank/paste with y/p). Is there a way to enable this in the default pager, or is there an alternative pager that supports this kind of modal behavior?
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- 8 months
You can set Vim as your pager. If you are on Neovim, its very easy, just set this variable:
export PAGER='nvim +Man!' export MANPAGER="${PAGER}"Then try
man grep. These variables could be set in your .bashrc in example. If you use the “original” Vim, it’s a bit more complicated to setup. I did that before too, so it’s definitely doable.
8 monthsThis, but I use
batsince it seems to be faster for this.Edit: I should clarify that I only use
batas theMANPAGER, sincebatuseslessunder the hood for paging anyway. But with support for a built-in pager in the new release, perhaps it makes sense to set it as thePAGERtoo.- 8 months
What’s the Wayland equiv? I did a quick search and got a few different answers. Apparently bashrc still works since its your term shell but not for setting variables in the login shell. One comment said it could be ~/.profile
Do you know?
- whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish8 months
I’m a bit confused by your question.
lessis usually the default pager and it supports vim style navigation out of the box. Moreover, a pager is just for viewing content (historically which didn’t fit on the screen), and not for editing. So I’m not sure what you mean by pasting - 8 months
I’m on my phone, but when using less “v” opens the file in $EDITOR. I don’t remember if it defaults to read only
