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I know what you're saying; I wanted the same thing. Here's how I resolved it: https://gist.github.com/busterc/f8e988b4ca63f24c71c56daf448a...

You should be able to pass `--paging always`. The default `auto` will only page if the file contents is bigger than your screen.

this does paging but still leaves the page in my buffer/terminal/whatever.

If your terminal is big enough, it will just output like cat, otherwise, you get a pager.

You can disable it with `bat --paging never`

By default, bat seems to support displaying contents of the file in a pager.