[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51334] call to pager prevents subsequent command display

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #51334 (project octave):

I am not sure to understand correctly the sequence of commands to be issued,
because in the second verbatim section it is not displayed. But: Isn't the
concept "command echoed to the terminal" beside the point? With the pager on,
echoing is done to the pager, and the pager decides what to show in the
terminal. And in this case you didn't scroll down, so you did not see the
echoing of 7+7. If you scroll down, isn't it there?

By the way: I see now that the pager output looks like this also at other
peoples' installations. Since time immemorial (at least since 3.6.0, but I
think actually 3.2.4, the first version I was using) I have had 
PAGER_FLAGS(' ')
(note the space, because PAGER_FLAGS() won't accept an empty string) in my
start-up file, because I find the behaviour customized by octave unusable.
Otherwise, the scroll wheel does not affect the pager but scrolls the
terminal, the pager terminates when I step through to the bottom and I then
have to scroll the terminal to see the upper parts of the output, and in this
case, but also when I end the pager with 'q', my terminal window becomes
littered with graveyards of numbers, where in my opinion the major benefit of
the pager is to collapse these outputs away. So I suggest to everyone to set
the pager flags to empty and thus to use the vanilla behaviour of your pager,
giving you a whole new (hopefully positive) experience of using octave, and
perhaps the developers can comment about the reasons that these flags are
there in the first place. By the way, I am using less as pager, but this is
just what these flags are supposedly guided at giving the conditions for its
execution in the system-wide start-up file.

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