[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #9022] Page help, ls, dir, even when "more" is off

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #3, patch #9022 (project octave):

I think of the PAGER function in Octave as a local replacement for the
environment variable. It defaults to the value from the environment, I can set
it to a different value, but Octave expects that it will always point to some
program that can act as the pager.

To me that's not a limitation, just an expectation that there will always be a
pager, either the system default one, or one that the user prefers.

Thinking a little more about it now, I actually think some kind of global
setting or preference that contains a cell array of function names that should
always be paged could work. This could be treated as either an opt-in or
opt-out, depending on how we want the value of Vpage_screen_output to interact
with these per-function pager settings.

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