+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
>

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