[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #9022] Page help, ls, dir, even when "more" is off

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #2, patch #9022 (project octave):

Thanks for the feedback, Mike.  I'll look into pager.attend.

I had been thinking of having a variable that lets the user pick a set of
commands whose output should be paged, but went for the simpler option.

I can see a case for paging large vectors, but my code (as I assume much code)
outputs very many small values as it progresses.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Having an empty PAGER variable would usually
mean that the program picks a default value for you. Which is exactly what
Octave does."  That is sensible use of the PAGER *environment* variable.  This
patch doesn't change that.  It just allows Octave's *internal* PAGER variable
to be set explicitly to empty. If you want an empty value to be treated
differently, perhaps we should modify "pager_cmd" so that it doesn't test for
PAGER being empty.

My first thought was to suggest using "cat", but that doesn't seem to be
available on Windows.

I won't lose any sleep if this patch is never applied to the main Octave
codebase :) It just serves my needs, and I though others may benefit from it
too.  That said, if some tweaks make it acceptable for the main codebase, I'll
try to make it as useful as I can.

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