Colight

Command line utility that highlights text based on how compressible it is. Compressibility is determined using a lz77-like algorithm. The idea is that compressibility is a good indicator of whether a piece of text is interesting or not.

It only works in true-color terminals.

Usage

$ cat file | colight

Installing from source

cargo install --git https://github.com/jnises/colight

Building

Make sure you have rust installed (https://rustup.rs/)

cargo build -r

The resulting binary can be found in target/release/colight