Am 09.10.2012 19:19, schrieb Lennart Poettering: > On Tue, 09.10.12 15:19, Tom Hughes (tom@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> On 09/10/12 15:04, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> >>> h) It's much shorter to type: "journalctl" than "less >>> /var/log/messages". "journalctl -n" is shorter than "tail >>> /var/log/messages". And "journalctl -f" is shorter than "tail -f >>> /var/log/messages". >> >> While "less" helpfully wraps your log lines at the edge of your >> terminal journalctl unhelpfully truncates them or, if -a is used, >> makes you use left/right cursor to scroll back and forth in an >> attempt to read the lines. Especially since it fully qualifies the >> host name so the actual message has barely got started by column 80. > > On f18 we will not trucnate lines we pass to less. > > If you don't like the behaviour of less in regards of long lines, please > file a bug to less. why is "less" used at all instead of "more" which supports scrolling down AND up as example? for me it is STIL a bad idea paging as default and force users to set shell-aliases the unix-way to go is "whaterver | more" truncating and paging as default is really bad behavior
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