Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Give the 'bat' command wings with 'bat-extras'" video.

  1. No, it's a perfect example of what's wrong with Rustaceans. They want to rewrite everything in Rust with barely any knowledge of what they're replacing or how it works. The result is often inferior to the original while looking pretty with all the colors of the rainbow. One I keep complaining about that no one has a good response to is ripgrep doesn't properly handle PCRE, so certain searches, which for me are somewhat common, don't get handled correctly and it either will find nothing or have a completely wrong list of output. It doesn't matter how fast something runs if it produces incorrect output.
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  2. It's an example of a bug and why it's better to keep using older programs rather than rewrite everything from scratch.
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  3. And if a program prints terminal escape sequences to alter color you can tell less to handle them correctly on the fly by typing -r either as a command line option or once it's open.
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  4. It's like a weird conglomeration of cat, less and vim, except that it's not quite as capable. You can actually setup vim to work like this, with the right aliases and for a few things an added vimscript, and I'm sure people have, but either way, I'd still rather not use bat. No change of setup necessary to just use less to browse archives, or the superior archivemount to mount them and browse with any of my existing `ls` filters. If I'm browsing source code, vim is always going to be my go to and it can even navigate directories.
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  5. And using -N with less.
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