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Re: Querying more status


From: Thomas Weber
Subject: Re: Querying more status
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:06:20 +0100

Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2008, 03:07 -0500 schrieb John W. Eaton:
> On 29-Jan-2008, Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> 
> | There seems to be a small hole in the Octave API: you
> | can toggle pagination on and off using 'more' but AFAICT
> | there is no way to find out what is the current state.
> 
> No, that seems to be a limitation of Matlab.
> 
> In Octave, you can use page_screen_output to determine the current
> state:
> 
>   octave:1> page_screen_output
>   ans =  1
>   octave:2> more off
>   octave:3> page_screen_output
>   ans = 0
>   octave:4> more on 
>   octave:5> page_screen_output
>   ans =  1

Documentation patch for this.

2008-01-30  Thomas Weber  <address@hidden>

        * pager.cc: Mention page_screen_output in more's help.

        Thomas

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