On Tue, 16.07.13 21:50, Reindl Harald (h.reindl@thelounge.net) wrote:
While I'm no more important than the next guy, I'll defend the auto-pager feature of both git and journalctl. I love it, in fact. I'm no stranger to very long pipelines and sub-shells but I see nothing but benefit in not having to add "| less" routinely to things that are UI in nature. These auto-pagers get out of the way immediately if you need a pipeline, so what's the harm? In fact, you can still "journalctl | less" or the like if you really want to.
you could also do alias journalctl="journalctl | less" to achive the same
No you can't really. The auto-paging is smarter than you might think. For example, "journalctl -e" can only really work if we spawn the pager ourselves, and there's more like that.
But anyway, the auto-paging thing is going to stay, you can talk about it as much as you want. Why? Simply because *I* love it. It's one awesome feature. You are welcome to disagree, but discussing this forth and back on fedora-devel is highly unlikely to change my mind on this. As long as I maintain it, this one feature definitely stays in. Sorry for that!
Lennart