Re: How to break out of a computation?

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 20-Feb-2006, Sebastien Loisel wrote:
>
> | >
> | > The code in pager.cc already handles buffering of Octave output.  Are
> | > you not using any of that?
> |
> |
> | I just look that up to see whether I am. I'm afraid I'm not. I'm 
> rdbuf()ing
> | octave_stdout to my own subclass of streambuf, which dumps 
> everything to the
> | window as soon as it receives it. I guess it would be niftier if I 
> could
> | grab octave_pager_buf's output and stuff, but the functions aren't 
> virtual
> | so I don't see how I can simply reuse the object.
> |
> | Do you suggest a different approach?
>
> If the code in pager.cc is close to what you want, but doesn't quite
> do everything you need, then we can probably fix things so that it
> will work for you.  You may have to suggest changes.  But I think that
> would be better than duplicating much of that code on your own.
Seb,

This was what I was trying to get at when I suggested you use the 
command_editor class for the input, as then you'd have the diary, the 
history (even across sessions) that you don't currently have...

D.

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