Joseph Brenner <doomvox@gmail.com> writes:
> I thought I'd reproduced the behavior in an xterm, but I was just
> trying again and I don't see it. It does seem that the dumbness of my
> dumb terminal is a factor.
Evidently.
> If I understand the way this works, it could be an even more baffling
> behavior if I were using an xterm: with a blank PAGER your output
> would disappear only if the select exceeded a certain number of
> lines...
Yeah, that was exactly the behavior I was seeing before fixing it
(the fix is pushed btw).
regards, tom lane