But julia often does show large screen dumps. Try:
julia> h={1=>1}; for i=2:100000 h[i]=i end; h
:-)
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Mauro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Octave has an automatic pager, which I don't like, but which I like
> better than matlab's endless screen dumps. I think the Julian (and
> Numpy) way of only showing a small part of a big output is the way to
> go. Although it would be nice to have `less` working with arrays (etc)
> in case one needs to actually look at a big array.
>
> On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 19:04, [email protected] wrote:
> > I often find myself wishing for a pager in the repl when outputing large
> > amount of output. I see that there is a Base.less but it is only used on
> > files and not for outputting other stuff in the repl. In fact, it would
> be
> > great to have support for less, head, and tail like functionality for
> > looking at arrays, hashes, etc. Thus to be able to do:
> >
> > arr |> less
> > or
> > less(arr)
> > or
> > arr |> tail
> >
> > In addition, I think having the output of show() automatically go through
> > less if it longer that one page would be great. I hate seeing 100's of
> > pages of output fly by when, e.g., a huge hash gets "shown" at the prompt
> > (I just cannot seem to get in the habit of typing the ; at the right
> time).
> > This behavior could be configurable of course.
> >
> > Bob
>
>
>
