> I use less for scrollback generally and it's fine. The reason it is > useful for me to have an alternative is for cases where output is > unexpectedly large, and rerunning the process isn't practical. Also > getting lots of unexpected stderr output won't be handled well by > less by default.
just mod your shell to always copy all stdout of commands into a temp file, then open the file with less after one of these stupidly long commands.
