peek is a lightweight ncurses-based terminal pager written in C.
It’s designed for people who want to inspect several inputs from the command line without launching a full editor, letting you open multiple buffers, browse source files with syntax highlighting, read man pages in tabs, and view piped input in the same interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports multiple buffers so you can view several files or inputs at once.
- Provides syntax highlighting for C, C++, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, shell scripts, Markdown, and man pages.
- Auto-detects and opens man pages as separate tabs.
- Accepts standard input, making it suitable for pipes and mixed file/stdin workflows.
- Includes incremental search with forward and backward match navigation.
- Uses simple Vim-like keyboard navigation for efficient terminal-based browsing.
- Can mix files, man pages, command output, and stdin in a single invocation.
- Offers optional fzf integration for opening additional files from inside the pager.
Website: github.com/kenseitehdev/peek
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Developer: Jay Kumar
License: MIT License
peek is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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