Once upon a time, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl said:
Sure, those are the defaults. If you had written that you don't like the systemd defaults, instead of talking about "bugs", this whole conversation would have been much productive.
When I described the behavior, I was told I was wrong and that the lines weren't chopped (which I then wondered why there was a "--full" option). Neither the documentation or the emails mentioned that journalctl overrides $LESS with the option to chop lines; I only found that out by tracing the process.
Another thing that I don't see in the man page is why some lines are bold/in color.
error -> red, notice -> bold, etc.
Which Lennart said should be documented in the man page, which is now on the to-do list.
It's a feature you don't get traditionally because syslog drops the priority information from the on-disk format.
I'd expect that if somebody thought that was an important default, the log format would have been updated years ago when rsyslog became the default.