[bug #68112] Pager no longer working under Windows

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                 Summary: Pager no longer working under Windows
                   Group: GNU Octave
               Submitter: dsbragion
               Submitted: Mon 02 Mar 2026 07:34:04 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name:
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Unlocked
                 Release: 11.1.0
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Mon 02 Mar 2026 07:34:04 AM UTC By: Denis Sbragion <dsbragion>
Hello,

with Octave 11.1.0 the pager no longer works under Windows. 

Something as simple as:


more('on')
ones(100,1)


cause the command window to freeze. Looking at the process list there's a
dangling less.exe process around and by killing it the command window
resumes.

I tested this under Windows 10, 11 23H2, 11 24H2 (fresh install), using both
the new terminal app and the legacy console, using either the GUI, octave-gui
--nogui or octave-cli, using the stock package downloaded from octave.org and
one recompiled from scratch using MSYS2 and mingw-w64. Haven't found a way to
work around this issue.

May be this is related to this change:

https://octave.discourse.group/t/workaround-for-weird-behavior-of-command-window-widget-in-windows/4981/45

Haven't tried yet to recompile with this small change reverted, but I can do
it if it could be of help.

Bye,

Denis







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