Monitor into pager

[YodaEmbedding]

To view the output in a pager, one can do:

mdv sample.md | less -r

However, this does not support automatic refreshing.

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Request: I would like monitoring while paging:

mdv -m -p sample.md

Notice the proposed option -p, which pipes output into a pager. When the monitored content is changed, the pager display is refreshed.

It would be particularly useful if the current line number is maintained every time a refresh is triggered.

This may or may not require an internal implementation of a pager, depending upon if there are pagers which support bidirectional communication.

[AXGKl]

sry for the 5 years.

I don't get the request. How could the pipe source know what's happening at the other end 🤔

Anybody has some example code for that?

[YodaEmbedding]

I've updated the post to clarify. "Bidirectional" piping is one possible implementation idea, if pager programs support it. If not, you may need to use a modified implementation of a pager.