Short flag for --paging=never?

[LordFlashmeow]

Sometimes, when I'm working with files larger than my screen, I find it more frustrating to with deal with less than use iTerm's scrollback, so I can come back to it later. less is great for looking at the first n lines of the file, but after that it's a pain.

The auto setting works fine for everything else, the only time I need to use the paging flag is for --paging=never, so it feels very long for an effectively "true/false" flag. Would it be possible to add a single letter alias for --paging=never? (Maybe -P?)

[windwp]

You can create a bash alias for it

[sharkdp]

Thank you for your request.

Note that you can already use --plain/-p twice to disable paging (and reduce the style to "plain"):

bat -pp …

[LordFlashmeow]

Hmm. True, but then a lot of the decorations are missing. It looks like it's only a couple of lines to add — one if statement in config(), and a couple of lines to add the argument. I can make a PR with my proposed changes, unless you think it's a bad idea (it's your project, after all!)

[sharkdp]

Sounds good to me. @eth-p, what do you think?

[eth-p]

Short flags are at a bit of a premium, but this seems like a good reason to use one. 👍

[sharkdp]

Closed via #1082

[sharkdp]

Released in v0.16.0.