But in an ideal world, if every tool is careful to restrict it to one page or less, you'd literally never need a pager anymore. Alternatively, tools could buil

But in an ideal world, if every tool is careful to restrict it to one page or less, you'd literally never need a pager anymore. Alternatively, tools could build in pagers for fewer pipeline surprises, like the all-encompassing systemd. Even better, I could envision a framework where any tool that produces output can be automatically subject to pagination, with auto terminal detection and the whole bit. Think of libreadline but for output. You could thereby eliminate plenty of ad hoc hacks.