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Currently bulk just reads and reads from STDIN in a specified chunk size and allocated more memory as needed. It would be much nicer if it just read as much as it needed to display a page.

• Calculate base page size
• Read in n bytes (where n is the base page size)
• Make show return a status to check if the current page has been filled.
  • If not, read in another n bytes (where n is the base page size)
  • If yes, wait until the user advances the page, meaning that show will once more
    return the not-filled status.

Vertical Scrolling is required when linewrapping is disabled. Line Scrolling is a potential quality of life improvement.

These two arguments disable colored and styled output. For this a ansi control sequence parser is needed.
I'm currently experimenting with cansid but it seems broken.

Maybe also add a --raw flag which just removes the ESC and replace it with \x1b

The final missing feature of bulk is regex searching. For this regex.h from the systems standardlib should be used. Pages should be automatically advanced if the next match does not lie within the current page.