Re: gui/pager problem on MacOSX

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:54 AM, John Swensen wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:58 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> > On 10/11/2013 09:47 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> >> I just noticed that when running the gui on MacOSX the pager isn't 
> >> working. When less is waiting on input, typing at the keyboard has no 
> >> effect.  The only way to recover is to pull up the task manager and kill 
> >> Octave.
> >>
> >> Carlo, can you verify that this isn't a problem local to my build (or 
> >> maybe MacOSX 10.7?)
> >
> > How are you starting Octave?  If it is from a terminal, does it work to 
> > type the commands for less in the terminal window?
> >
> > jwe
> 
> I run the gui using run-octave.
> 
> From the terminal the pager works correctly.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> Way back when I was actively working on OctaveDE in GTK and later the QT 
> version of it, JWE helped me get some PTY magic working so that the gui 
> terminal was the controlling terminal.
> 
> You can see the code that had to happen at startup to fork and make it work 
> at 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/octavede/code/HEAD/tree/branches/OctaveDE_QT/src/main.cpp
> I don't understand this code completely, but without it the pager would not 
> work in the gui. Before this fix, if I launched the gui from a terminal, I 
> was able to go back to the terminal from which it was started and control the 
> pager that was in the QT gui terminal. I'm not sure if this is still a 
> good/right solution, but thought I would chime in nonetheless.
> 
> John Swensen

Thanks John! ! !

Your suggestion worked. The pager is connected to the original terminal window.

Ben