From 614aeeae20b958b15459179fd8595630bd4096e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meni Livne <meni@livne.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:34:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat: integrate batpipe for archive and file preprocessing

---
 modules/shell.nix |  1 +
 src/home/.zshrc   | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/shell.nix b/modules/shell.nix
index 5457675..625a956 100644
--- a/modules/shell.nix
+++ b/modules/shell.nix
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ in
     # Syntax highlighting and colorized utilities
     eza
     bat
+    bat-extras.batpipe
     sourceHighlight
     zsh-syntax-highlighting
     fzf
diff --git a/src/home/.zshrc b/src/home/.zshrc
index 9628293..8680b07 100644
--- a/src/home/.zshrc
+++ b/src/home/.zshrc
@@ -88,8 +88,12 @@ else
   PROMPT='%F{cyan}%n%f@%F{blue}%m%f %F{green}%~%f %# '
 fi
 
-# Syntax highlighting for less and cat using bat (falls back to source-highlight)
-if command -v bat &> /dev/null; then
+# Syntax highlighting and archive preprocessing for less and cat using bat/batpipe
+if command -v batpipe &> /dev/null; then
+  eval "$(batpipe)"
+  alias cat="bat"
+  export LESS="-R"
+elif command -v bat &> /dev/null; then
   alias cat="bat"
   export LESSOPEN="| bat --color=always --style=plain %s"
   export LESS="-R"
@@ -98,6 +102,15 @@ elif command -v src-hilite-lesspipe.sh &> /dev/null; then
   export LESS="-R"
 fi
 
+# Route JSON files to jless when paging interactively
+less() {
+  if [[ $# -eq 1 && "$1" == *.json && -f "$1" && -t 1 && -t 0 ]] && command -v jless &> /dev/null; then
+    jless "$@"
+  else
+    command less "$@"
+  fi
+}
+
 # Colorized man pages in less
 export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[1;31m'
 export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[1;36m'