On Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:06:20 PM Andrea Pagnani wrote: > +10000 for a pager in REPL!!!!!!! > > I was thinking to write something like this post just today
You still can :). Just because it's an issue doesn't mean someone is working on it. --Tim > > Andrea > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 8:04:05 PM UTC+2, Bob Nnamtrop 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
