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Id: 31256
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: ack
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: ROBN [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 1.72
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Thu Dec 06 00:33:57 2007 ROBN [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
When piping ack output somewhere else, like a pager, the pretty formatting is lost. That makes its usefulness limited anywhere there are many many matches. Once possible change might be to use the concise formatting when it is the output is being piped, but when its not, invoke the pager if there are more than $ENV{LINES} output.
  Thu Dec 06 03:58:18 2007 ROBN [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from (no value) to 'Don't change formatting with piping output to pager'
  Thu Dec 06 10:01:08 2007 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
You can force formatting to be on from the command line. Also, this is no longer the queue for bugs/comments. Please see the ack docs for details about where to post what.
  Thu Dec 06 10:01:10 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Dec 06 10:01:12 2007 PETDANCE [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'