I was already using bat, but I only really scratched the surface of everything it could do. From the video description:

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras

wallpaper photo is mine, https://www.patreon.com/c/breadonpenguins

my music: https://unicornmasquerade.bandcamp.com/

  • 0:00 command color outputs!
  • 1:35 syntax highlighted manual page btw
  • 1:57 supported languages
  • 2:30 install bat, bat-extras
  • 3:12 config options
  • 3:46 style formats
  • 4:30 custom colorschemes
  • 4:59 integration for common tools
  • 5:33 bat preview in fzf
  • 6:28 colorized help menus
  • 7:02 performance comparison?
  • 8:36 syntax highlighting makes my brain perform faster
  • shoo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Cool cool, now just need to wire it up to every common command and make a custom best-effort fallback so I never have to think about it (except for when it inexplicably breaks in 6 months and I need to fix it again).

    Gonna get down voted to hell for this, but it’s my main gripe with daily driving Linux: to get a semblance of QoL you either monkey patch a brittle solution or dedicate your finite time and memory to learning the song and dance of each tool.

    I know it’s not fair to gripe about freely supported open source software, but dev tooling has advanced an incredible amount since the old hackathon days. We need better efforts around modular integration and UX to really get widespread adoption.

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    2 days ago

    There are some nice rust replacement tools.

    https://dev.to/heraldofsolace/replace-your-existing-unix-utilities-with-these-modern-alternatives-2bfo

    https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust

    Though I do not use BAT, I do like and use these ones;

    Kibi: bandwhich: disktest: Cracken: lapce: monolith: srm-rust

    That is some mad music.

    Its inspired me to drop 5 grams of cubensis penis envy tonight and go walking in my local forest.