Bat: Feature: support passing initial commands to pager

[niedzielski]

less supports initializing the pager with a passed command. One useful use case is to specify a starting regular expression to search for. For example, when configuring the pager option for Git, search can be configured to hop along commits and files: less -iRFXx2 '+/^(commit|added:|deleted:|modified:|renamed:|stash@\\{[0-9]+\\}:) '. bat supports passing a subcommand but as far as I can tell there's no way to pass options onto the underlying pager. This feature request encapsulates the work required to add command passing functionality from CLI argument to pager.

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the feedback.

Isn't this possible with the same method as described in https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-a-different-pager?

[niedzielski]

Thanks @shardp! Sorry for the RTFM! I seem to be having an unrelated issue with the pattern but argument passing works. :+1: :+1:

[sharkdp]

This just got much easier with v0.8.0.