Introduction

page is a minimalist terminal pager written in C with no dependencies.

• Supports UTF-8 (and only UTF-8).
• Handles all ANSI escape codes (e.g. colors) except codes that move the cursor.
• Shows percentage progress when displaying a file.
• Should be portable to most POSIX systems, though it is not strictly POSIX compliant since there isn't a POSIX compliant way to get the terminal dimensions in C.
• page is about 150 lines of code and compiles to a 30KB static binary with musl-gcc.

Usage

<command> | page
page <file>

Commands

• ENTER - scroll one line
• SPACE - scroll one screen
• d - scroll half a screen
• t - scroll to top (only when paging a file)
• q - quit

Building

Run ./make or env CC=musl-gcc ./make.