less paging support

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
cli, devtools

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests. Start by reproducing a very large object inspection in the debug REPL and compare the desired behavior with pry-rails's use of less. Define what should trigger pagination, how the pager should behave, and a testable completion condition before locating the relevant REPL code.

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Description

Your proposal
What is your idea?

When inspecting a large object, it could endlessly scroll for hundreds of lines on the screen. pry-rails incorporates less into the REPL so that very long inspections are paginated. How can we do that with this tool?

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