[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #9024] Colour-coded output text

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #16, patch #9024 (project octave):

Yes, the command window widget implementations are entirely different for
Windows and Unix.

I would like to merge them into one and handle I/O in a completely different
way, probably such that any pager will have to be built-in to Octave instead
of using an external program.  I don't think that limitation will cause a lot
of trouble for most users.  AFAIK, Matlab can't do 'system ("emacs")'.

I don't know what this would mean for color-coded output, but I expect that it
would allow us to do a better job.

But the main reasons that I want to make this change are that I think it will
allow better interrupt and event handling and it will simplify maintenance by
having one implementation of the command window.

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