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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, at 22:09, Ethan Furman wrote:
> So I have to cripple my shell to get pydoc help to work nicely?  Neat! 
> Actually, not so much.  :(

If you don't want a pager with pydoc, when exactly do you want it?