Re: Communicating with GUI

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/08/2013 12:34 PM, Rik wrote:

> There was a note on the Maintainer's list about this, but somewhere in the
> abundant series of changes in the last week the communication between the
> pager and the GUI has regressed.
>
> I'm now back to the ancient behavior where if I use a command like 'help
> ver' the GUI displays the first screenful of information and then waits for
> a prompt.  But the keystroke for continuing paging needs to be entered in
> the original shell window that launched the Octave GUI rather than in the
> GUI itself.  Actually, it seems that the keystroke is captured by the GUI
> but I have to hit<ENTER>  in the shell window.  This behavior is with
> changeset 16467:cc9e2751e073.  I could do an hg bisect if you want, but
> perhaps you have an idea about where the problem lies.

That's my fault.  I commented out the call to dissociate_terminal at 
some point because the fork makes using gdb hard.  Then I accidentally 
checked it in as part of another change.  We really need a better fix 
for this problem other than fork+setsid, but I don't know how to do it.

jwe