Re: shell terminal is not fully functional, octave, term

> Uwe Brauer writes: > It should be possible to tell Octave not to use a pager. In many > cases, setting the environment variable PAGER=cat does what you want. > Eg, this works for git-help. There may also be an Octave setting for > this. Right! I had PAGER=less So setting it to cat, helped for the case of using octave like this: M-x shell octave. However the octave pkg implements what is called inferior-octave a sort of derived shell mode, which allows you to send regions of your octave file directly to the octave executable. However for this implementation changing the pager does not help.