Hello ack-users,
I've recently tweaked my ack to the point of:
ack --flush --pager='less -R -F -X'
This is neat because the pager only becomes interactive if the results are
too large to fit one screen.
But unfortunately less waits with printing things to screen before it can
determine that the results are, in fact, too large to fit one screen. So
when there are many files and few results, it doesn't print those few
results as soon as it sees them.
I realize that this is a) not a problem with the way I use ack, but rather
with the way I use less, and b) a principal problem, since if less printed
lines until it realized there were too many of them, and then performed
termcap init and printed everything again for the interactive mode, that
might not be desired in any average case.
Has anyone encountered this delay and found a neat way to overcome it?
(Basically, I'd love to overcome the whole "ack ...; ah, shoot, too many
results; ack ... --pager=..." situation that I've been used to with grep
for decades.)
Perhaps I'm looking for a smarter pager than less.
Kindly,
Simon Shine
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