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

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #1, patch #9022 (project octave):

I'm not sure I agree with the distinction between paging arrays vs paging help
texts. I don't see a bright line distinction between wanting some things to be
paged and others not. What if I like to use the pager for scrolling through
large vectors, but I don't want help text to be paged because it's only 50-100
lines at the most?

If you want to make this more flexible, maybe Octave needs some equivalent to
Mercurial's pager.attend variable?

Setting PAGER to "cat" is usually the way to bypass screen paging with the man
command for example. Having an empty PAGER variable would usually mean that
the program picks a default value for you. Which is exactly what Octave does.

In short I don't know that I would be happy with this change as is, turning
more off should affect all commands equally IMHO, so that the pager program is
never executed.

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