+10000 for a pager in REPL!!!!!!! I was thinking to write something like this post just today
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 >
