Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl said:
This means that you haven't really used journalctl. It *is* much nicer. Try it, and you'll stop wanting to go back to 'less /var/log/messages' and 'tail -f /var/log/*'.
So I went and tried journalctl, and immediately hit the same UI stupidity as systemctl. Truncated lines, auto-paging, etc., unless I pipe to something else. Significantly differing behavior between direct output and pipes is just wrong. Having to remember some double-dash long option just to get non-truncated (and non-useless) log info is highly irritating.