[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37468] Octave hangs when using F instead of f for More or Less

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #37468 (project octave):

Confirmed on development build 2fa06d83263a.

Which pager are you using?  Try typing PAGER at the Octave prompt to find out.
 When I use 'less' I see the problem that you do.  According to the man page
for 'less', the key 'F' is a command.


F
 Scroll forward, and keep trying to read when the end of file is reached.
Normally this command would be used when already at the end of the file. It is
a way to monitor the tail of a file which is growing while it is being viewed.
(The behavior is similar to the "tail -f" command.)


My guess is that less tries to do a read and there is no more data and so the
process blocks.

I have no problems if I use 'more'.


PAGER ("more");
PAGER_FLAGS (" ");


A good test case is 'help eigs' because this has a long docstring which
invokes the pager.


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