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NAME
     moor - the nice pager

SYNOPSIS
     moor [options] file...
     moor --help
     moor --version

DESCRIPTION
     moor is a pager much like less (1), but with generally nicer out-of-the-box
     behavior.

     More information and screenshots: https://github.com/walles/moor#readme

     Inside of moor, press h to access the built-in help.

     Input  is expected to be (optionally compressed) UTF-8 text.  Invalid / un-
     printable characters are by default rendered as '?'.

     If you have opened multiple files, press : to switch between them.

OPTIONS
     Multiple-choice options all have the default value listed first.

     All of these options can be appended to the MOOR environment  variable  for
     persistent configuration.

     Doing moor --help will also list these options.

     --colors={auto | 8 | 16 | 256 | 16M}
	    Size of color palette we output to the terminal

     --debug
	    Print debug logs after exiting, less verbose than --trace

     --follow
	    Scrolls automatically to follow piped input, just like tail -f

     --lang=string
	    Used  for  highlighting.  Without this flag highlighting is based on
	    the input file name.  Valid values are MIME types like  text/x-mark-
	    down,  file extensions like md or language names like markdown.  For
	    the  source  of  truth  on	what  is  supported  exactly,  look   in
	    https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma/tree/master/lexers/embedded  or
	    its parent directory.

     --mousemode={auto | select | scroll}
	    Guarantee selecting text with the mouse works but  maybe  not  mouse
	    scrolling.	 Or  guarantee	mouse scrolling works but selecting text
	    requiring	     extra	  effort.	   Details	   here:
	    https://github.com/walles/moor/blob/master/MOUSE.md

     --no-clear-on-exit
	    Retain  screen  contents when exiting moor.  Affected by --no-clear-
	    on-exit-margin.

     --no-clear-on-exit-margin=int
	    Leave this number of lines for your shell prompt after exiting.  De-
	    faults to 1. Affects --no-clear-on-exit and --quit-if-one-screen.

     --no-linenumbers
	    Hide line numbers on startup, press left arrow key to show

     --no-reformat
	    No effect, exists for backwards compatibility. See --reformat.

     --no-search-line-highlight
	    Do	not  highlight	the  background  of  lines with search hits. The
	    search hits themselves are still highlighted though, even with  this
	    option.

     --no-statusbar
	    Hide the status bar, toggle with =

     --quit-if-one-screen
	    Print input contents without paging if the input fits on one screen.
	    Affected by --no-clear-on-exit-margin.

     --reformat
	    Reformat supported input files (JSON) before showing them.

     --render-unprintable={highlight | whitespace}
	    How unprintable characters are rendered

     --scroll-left-hint=string
	    UTF-8  character indicating the view can scroll left, defaults to an
	    inverse <.	This can be a string containing  ANSI  formatting.   The
	    word ESC in caps will be interpreted as one escape character.  Exam-
	    ple  value	for  faint  (using  ANSI  SGR  code 2) tilde characters:
	    ESC[2m~

     --scroll-right-hint=string
	    UTF-8 character indicating the view can scroll right, defaults to an
	    inverse >.	This can be a string containing  ANSI  formatting.   The
	    word ESC in caps will be interpreted as one escape character.  Exam-
	    ple  value	for  faint  (using  ANSI  SGR  code 2) tilde characters:
	    ESC[2m~

     --shift=int
	    Arrow keys side scroll amount. Or try ALT+arrow to scroll one column
	    at a time.

     --statusbar={inverse | plain | bold}
	    Status bar style

     --style={native | style}
	    Highlighting		       style			    from
	    https://xyproto.github.io/splash/docs/longer/all.html

     --tab-size=int
	    Number  of spaces per tab stop, defaults to 8. Or try CTRL-t to tog-
	    gle when moor is running.

     --terminal-fg
	    Use terminal foreground color rather than style foreground color for
	    unstyled text.  Try this if your terminal window  has  a  background
	    image rather than a solid color.

     --trace
	    Print trace logs after exiting, more verbose than --debug

     --wrap
	    Wrap long lines, toggle with w

     +1234  Immediately scroll to line 1234

     +/pattern
	    Immediately scroll to line matching pattern

FILES
     $XDG_DATA_HOME/moor/search_history
	    Moor  will store your search history in this file. If $XDG_DATA_HOME
	    is not set, the file will be stored in  the  default  XDG  location,
	    usually ~/.local/share/moor/search_history.

ENVIRONMENT
     LESS_TERMCAP_*
	    For backwards compatibility with less, moor reads all LESS_TERMCAP_*
	    values.  In these values, both actual escape characters and the word
	    ESC  in caps are interpreted as escape characters.	In moor, styling
	    should be done using the --style option rather than using these  en-
	    vironment variables.  Example value: ESC[1m.

     LESS_TERMCAP_md
	    Formatting used for man page bold text.

     LESS_TERMCAP_us
	    Formatting used for man page underlined text.

     LESS_TERMCAP_so
	    Formatting used for status bar and search hits.

     LESSSECURE
	    Setting  this to "1" prevents moor from opening new files or launch-
	    ing external programs, as required by systemctl(1).  In secure mode,
	    the "v" command for opening the current file in an	editor	is  dis-
	    abled, and the search history file is not updated.

     MOOR   Additional options are read from this variable if it is set, just as
	    if	those  same options had been manually added to each moor invoca-
	    tion. Try setting it to --reformat to have JSON input  automatically
	    reformatted!

     PAGER  If set to "moor", many programs will use moor as their pager.

     PAGER_WRAP_COLUMNS
	    If set to a positive number, this limits the maximum width for wrap-
	    ping long lines.

     PAGER_LABEL
	    Other programs can set this to tell moor what name to show for stdin
	    input.

BUGS
     Kindly report any bugs here: https://github.com/walles/moor/issues

				   2026-06-02				 MOOR(1)

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