hackable-pager

hackable-pager is a small pager written in C using ncurses.

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What is this?

This project is a minimal text/code viewer that:

• reads a file line by line into memory
• renders it manually using ncurses
• allows scrolling
• applies very basic C syntax highlighting

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Why does this exist?

I just wanted to make a pager in C... However, the possible uses I think this has are:

• A kernel for an advanced pager OR text/code editor
• Learning ncurses
• Messing around

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Features

• Full-screen ncurses rendering
• Vertical scrolling
  • j / k
  • arrow keys
• Fixed-width line number gutter
• Very basic C syntax highlighting:
  • keywords
  • string literals
  • // line comments
• Straightforward codebase

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Building

You’ll need ncurses installed.

gcc pager.c -lncurses -o pager

Usage

./pager [path/to/.c/file

Controls:

• j / ↓ — scroll down
• k / ↑ — scroll up
• q — quit