From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Feb 21 06:33:10 2006
Subject: Re: How to break out of a computation?
From: John Swensen <jswensen at intergate dot com>
To: Sebastien Loisel <sloisel at gmail dot com>
CC: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:31:31 -0700

Sebastien Loisel wrote:
> On 2/21/06, *Sebastien Loisel* <sloisel at gmail dot com
> <mailto:sloisel at gmail dot com>> wrote:
>
>             If the code in pager.cc is close to what you want, but
>             doesn't quite
>             do everything you need, then we can probably fix things so
>             that it
>
>         as we've been discussing, this isn't possible in MinGW. The
>         C++ way is to add a virtual write() function to
>         octave_pager_stream, whose default logic is something like
>
>
>     Upon further consideration of pager.cc, I think what you're
>     getting at is the diary functionality, and I notice now that any
>     embedder will necessarely break that as it is right now.
>
>
> Upon further further consideration, here's an idea. Instead of << to
> cout in pager.cc, << to octave_actual_stdout, which you initially
> rdbuf() to cout. This way I can rdbuf() octave_actual_stdout to my
> buffer, and it'll go through octave_pager_stream.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sébastien Loisel
>
This is the very "streams hell" I went through a couple of years ago
when I tried it your way.  Looks like you have much more streams
experience and fortitude than I did :)

John Swensen