How to use built-in pager?

[rwmitchell]

newbie here - just found this, looks really nice.

I'm using iTerm2. If I unset PAGER, then mdless uses it's built in pager and images display as desired.

I'd prefer not to unset PAGER. Is there a flag or setting I can use to get the built in pager?

follow-up: can the path to imgcat be specified?

[ttscoff]

What is your PAGER set to? mdless defaults to $PAGER, then $GIT_PAGER, then `git config --get-all core.pager` if that's set, then cycles through bat, less, more, cat, and pager, in that order, looking for an available option. If you're unsetting PAGER, it's looking farther down the line and finding something that works from that fallback list. So the question is what is your $PAGER set to that _isn't_ working with images?

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-Brett

On 10 May 2023, at 14:43, Richard Mitchell wrote: newbie here - just found this, looks really nice. I'm using iTerm2. If I unset PAGER, then mdless uses it's built in pager and images display as desired. I'd prefer not to unset PAGER. Is there a flag or setting I can use to get the built in pager? -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #85 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[rwmitchell]

I have PAGER set to colorize_less, from an OMZ plugin. It ultimately is still using less, which is why I was confused, but must have different options set. Setting PAGER to less does work, but I'm still confused.

If I just run: imgcat foo.png | less I get the iTerm2 escape sequence for the image, not the image. What magic is mdless using?

I also just tried setting PAGER to be the full path to less ( I have V. 608 installed in addition the Apple provided 581.2 ) and wanted to make sure which I was getting. Neither work with the full path. PAGER=less does and that is using 608.

[ttscoff]

mdless uses the flags -Xr if less is specified. Try adding `-Xr` to your PAGER setting and see if you get better results.

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-Brett

On 10 May 2023, at 18:03, Richard Mitchell wrote: I have PAGER set to colorize_less, from an OMZ plugin. It ultimately is still using less, which is why I was confused, but must have different options set. Setting PAGER to less does work, but I'm still confused. If I just run: ```imgcat foo.png | less``` I get the iTerm2 escape sequence for the image, not the image. What magic is mdless using? -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #85 (comment) You are receiving this because you commented. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[rwmitchell]

Indeed, -Xr is the magic.