# walles/moor

Moor is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

Repository: https://github.com/walles/moor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/moor
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: pager, moar, console-application, console
Last push: 2026-08-25T19:23:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4690, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 5, "n_releases_24m": 86}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1144, forks 62 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:45.125532+00:00)

## What it is
Moor is a terminal pager (formerly named moar) that displays UTF-8 text from files or pipes with zero configuration. It provides syntax highlighting, incremental search, transparent decompression, and mouse scrolling out of the box as a drop-in replacement for less.

## Use cases
- view large log files in the terminal with syntax highlighting
- replace less with a pager that works without configuration
- page through git diff output with colors preserved
- search inside piped command output incrementally
- read gzipped or xz-compressed text files directly
- follow growing log output like tail -f while paging

## When to choose
- you want a modern less alternative with sensible defaults and no config
- you need syntax highlighting and incremental find-as-you-type in a pager
- you view ANSI-colored output like git diff and want it rendered properly
- you want transparent decompression of compressed files while paging

## When to avoid
- you rely on less-specific scripts or keybindings that must match exactly
- you need a graphical document viewer rather than a terminal pager
- you require a pager with extensive plugin or configuration ecosystems

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, terminal-ui, search-engine
- domain: developer-tools, text-editors
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: pager, less-alternative, syntax-highlighting, console, go, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- walles/moor (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.125532+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:34:46.038053+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/walles/moor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.125532+00:00, sha 984942dc6194)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.