aha! I figured out why journalctl's auto-pager bugs me when git's doesn't (and possible solution)

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 10/18/2012 01:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

> Okay, so with the old system, I don't recall *ever* doing
> 'cat /var/log/messages'. I always, always either less'ed it or grep'ped
...
> Did/do you usually less /var/log/messages? Or did you usually cat it?
>
>> Or, do you want that e.g. the 'ls -l' output gets auto-paged?

tail -f, about half of the time...