# noborus/ov

🎑Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer.  It is a so-called terminal pager.

Repository: https://github.com/noborus/ov
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ov
Homepage: https://noborus.github.io/ov
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pager, go, tcell, terminal, terminal-pager, tail, command-line, golang, incremental-search, less, more, cli, command-line-tool, tui
Last push: 2026-08-25T23:29:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2356, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 52, "gap_med": 33.5, "n_releases_24m": 21}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2009, forks 48 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:04.946295+00:00)

## What it is
ov is a feature-rich terminal pager written in Go, serving as a modern alternative to less and more. It supports fixed headers/columns, column mode for tabular data, follow mode for real-time updates, incremental search, and handles large and compressed files.

## Use cases
- view large log files in the terminal
- replace less with a better pager
- follow log files like tail -f with search
- view CSV or tabular output with aligned columns
- page through git diff output
- monitor file changes periodically
- read compressed gzip or zstd files directly

## When to avoid
- you only need the simplest possible pager with no learning curve
- you need a GUI text viewer or editor

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, terminal-ui, search-engine
- domain: developer-tools, files
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, cli
- tags: terminal-pager, tui, less-alternative, tail-follow, column-mode, incremental-search, go, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- noborus/ov (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.946295+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 2026-08-30T03:01:16.265464+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/noborus/ov (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:04.946295+00:00, sha c80882fee4dd)
  - homepage: https://noborus.github.io/ov (fetched 2026-08-29T10:41:06.880539+00:00, sha ddf0ff78374b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.