What makes ansi.kak not much powerful is that there are a ton of ansi code standards that my terminal supports but it doesn’t by default, so rather than giving kakoune a functionality that should be for other tools (the terminal emulator), we need a way to bypass kakoune sanitization of these codes so they reach the terminal emulator as is.
Stuff like this is why I don’t like using kakoune as a pager. Sure it can do the job, but that’s not what it’s for. Proper pagers can be quite powerful (see GitHub - noborus/ov: 🎑Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer. It is a so-called terminal pager.).
Right tool for the job and all that.
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kakoune keybinds and kakoune registers will be convenient to integrate. also kakoune plugins working on the stdin. It’s easier to remove the sanitization at will than making a separate kakpager program that connects to a kakoune session
what I said doesn’t mean that ov isn’t too good to exist. It’s like a charm!
still, I’d prefer something minimal while not learning a new configuration language if possible.
this pager is like emacs in the fact of over-promise. I’m a minimalist