Can "bzr annotate" be sped up?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> After all, I don't care about the "annotate output".  All I want is to
>>> find the sequence of diff-hunks (and corresponding commit-logs) that
>>> resulted in lines NN..MM of FILE.
>> And I believe 'bzr gannotate' had a 'back' button that would look at the
>> line you are on, find its revision, and then go to the parent of that
>> revision.

"button"

> Also, you can double-click on a line to view the diff that introduced it.

"click"

So this forces you to use those GUIs.  Whereas I'm talking about
a scriptable command-line interface, like "bzr diff", "bzr log", ...


        Stefan