[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#558461: Please automatically spawn a pager for commands with long output, like "bzr log"

[Josh Triplett]

Package: bzr
Version: 2.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist

"bzr log" currently spews all its output to standard output, even if
huge.  I think it would prove more user-friendly to automatically spawn
a pager for commands with large amounts of output, such as "bzr log", if
standard output refers to a terminal.

If standard output does not refer to a terminal, these commands could
continue to emit all their output as they currently do, keeping
compatibility with any use of these commands in a pipeline.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages bzr depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-celementtree    1.0.5-10          Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
ii  python-central         0.6.13            register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages bzr recommends:
pn  bzrtools                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  ca-certificates               20090814   Common CA certificates
pn  python-paramiko               <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages bzr suggests:
pn  bzr-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  bzr-gtk                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  bzr-svn                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-kerberos               <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-pycurl                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils                     1.0.2-6.1  desktop integration utilities from

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