Questions about the pager

[John Swensen]

I recently have discovered the my IDE fails when the pager is turned 
on.  I think I have narrowed down the problem, but need advice from 
someone with more UNIXy PTY experience than I.  I am using the patch 
that JWE pointed me to, which I  modified per the maintainers request 
and re-submitted to the VTE.  It allows me to make the IDE and octave 
the same process.  I am not 100% sure exactly how it works, other than 
the fact that I open a new pseudo-TTY and attach the master side to the 
VTE widget and run octave inside the pseudo-TTY using the following 
function run as a thread.

void* octave_main_wrapper(void *dummy)
{
 // TODO: pass in the real argc, argv
 int argc = 1;
 char* argv[] = {"/usr/bin/octave"};
 octave_main(argc,argv,0);

 do_octave_atexit();

 cout << "Exiting Octave - debug CTRL-C" << endl;

 return 0;
}

The problem seems to arise when the pager is called.  I think this is 
because Octave is actually spawning an instance of 'less' and for some 
reason it is attached to the TTY of the terminal from which I ran 
octave, rather than being attached to the pseudo-TTY in which Octave is 
running.  Can anyone give some advice on this issue?  Namely, is there a 
way to make the pager run inside the same pseudo-TTY as the octave process.

John Swensen