feature: vertical header

[adrianinsaval]

It would be nice if it was possible to have something similar as the -H option but vertically where the set amount of characters are ignored for selection and horizontal scrolling, a common use case would be bat's line number column

[noborus]

Thank you for Issue.

I don't think it's more convenient than expected, so now it's reluctant to implement.

I think it is better not to display the row number of the bat when using the pager.
That's why I need other reasons to be used.

[adrianinsaval]

bat's line number column can also display git status not just line number so it can be useful to display it

[adrianinsaval]

it might also make sense to allow using a delimiter regex instead of character count since the column grows if the file has >9999 lines

[noborus]

Good point, but I wonder if it is really that inconvenient that it only becomes invisible
when scrolling to the right without line wrapping.
Additionally, there is the drawback that the fixed-width display area on the left becomes narrower.
If we were to implement this, I believe it would be necessary to have a very easy way to toggle it on and off.

[adrianinsaval]

mainly what I would want is that the column is ignored for selection and therefore copying

[romaia]

Another usecase, for me, would be using hledgers reports that shows an account name and a column for each month. For instance:

I would like to be able to keep the account visible, while scrolling to the left/right

Another common case would be csv viewing, where the first (or even some) columns should always be visible.

For csv, I could get this behavior using pspg with | pspg --csv --csv-header on

[noborus]

Another usecase, for me, would be using hledgers reports that shows an account name and a column for each month. For instance:

Thank you for your comments.
This seems like a necessary feature to display this.