Collumnated text

[visrosa]

This is a situation I often run into (I chose a short example for brevity, but it's only annoying with very long output):

❯  eza /usr/
bin    i686-w64-mingw32  lib    lib64    libx32  sbin   src
games  include           lib32  libexec  local   share  x86_64-w64-mingw32

❯  eza /usr/ | ov -F
bin
games
i686-w64-mingw32
include
lib
lib32
lib64
libexec
libx32
local
sbin
share
src
x86_64-w64-mingw32

I'm playing around with go (although I went the BubbleTea route: https://github.com/visrosa/tasklineUI ). I'm planning on making something to collumnate text, so take the second output and turn it into the first.

It's something that would be useful to have in ov too, in my opinion. If there is interest, I wanna make this so it can easily integrate into ov.

I haven't had the chance to really dive into ov's code yet, so if this is desirable I'd appreciate some pointers on how to design it so it can be easily integrated.

As a note in case anyone runs into this from a search:
An easy way to sidestep programs changing output (like stripping colors or formatting) when piped is the unbuffer command (expect package in Ubuntu):

❯ unbuffer eza /usr/ | ov -F
bin    i686-w64-mingw32  lib    lib64    libx32  sbin   src
games  include           lib32  libexec  local   share  x86_64-w64-mingw32

[noborus]

Thank you for your suggestion.

It would be possible to do pre-processing using LESS_OPEN like in less, but that can also be done with a shell script, so I'm not very motivated to do that.

Instead, I was thinking about implementing a function to execute a filter command after opening the document.
Since the filter and EDIT functions have been implemented, technically this can be achieved by applying these.

Once that is implemented, it will be possible to execute a command like
column -c 100 from filterCommand.

By the way, you can achieve something similar (though not exactly the same) without using unbuffer:

ov -F -e eza /usr/