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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:15:01PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
> "Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This is useful when one is working on a system where the pager is lousy.
> 
> I'm curious.  Are you saying your less does not have -S (or you do not
> even have less), or do you have a reason not to use it?
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

The reason I thought of this initially was that I have a bot reporting commits
at $dayjob in an IRC channel. Since some of my colleagues commit with long
subject lines, I thought of this as a way to control the output of the bot
(e.g., by controlling the bot's input).

Nathan Panike