vim-ale/bat

title, homepage, tagline, description

title	homepage	tagline	description
bat	https://github.com/sharkdp/bat	bat: A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.	`bat` is pretty much what `cat` would be if it were developed today's in the world of Markdown, git, etc.

How to run on Windows 10

On Windows 10 you'll get an error like this:

execution cannot proceed run because vcruntime140.dll was not found

You need to download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

How to alias as cat

Update your .bashrc, .zshrc, or .profile

alias cat="bat --style=plain"

How to change the default behavior

Take a look at the config options:

bat --help

Check to see where your config file is:

echo 'N' | bat --generate-config-file

Edit the config file:

~/.config/bat/config:

# no numbers or headers, just highlighting and such
--style="plain"