meno

About

Meno was created as an alternative to the standard pager less with only one goal: to make searching in the file faster.

If you view with less a very long file, jumping to the first occurrence of a particular string can take a very long time. meno seeks to make this jump as fast as possible, at the expense of CPU and memory, with the assumption that you probably have a lot of both and are willing to trade it for faster searching.

Install

Assuming you have a $USER/bin directory:

git checkout https://github.com/ewaters/meno.git
cd meno
go build -o ~/bin/meno *.go

Usage

meno <large file>

You have the following keyboard shortcuts in the pager:

• g/G: Go to first/last line in file
• b/PgUp: Go up a page
• f/Space/PgDown: Go down a page
• j/ArrowDown: Go down a line
• k/ArrowUp: Go up a line
• q/CtrlC: Quit

But the most important ones are:

• /: Find down
• ?: Find up
• n/N: (after a search) Go to the next/previous result