Well they would!
My idea (and it may not be a very good one, as I'm still not very fluent with 
plan 9) is to delay the namespace rfork until I want to bind /dev/cons for 
something that needs it. There's an rfork command in rc that can do the 
separation.
So I'd do something like:
term% rfork n
term% bind something /dev/cons
term% p longfile
or wrap it up in a script so I can say:
term% withconsole p longfile
or even just:
term% more longfile
;) which would do the whole thing. The trick is finding the contextual 
console...

I realise there's more to this than /dev/cons, though. Eventually I think I'd 
want something like drawterm. That's a bit daunting tbh. 
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