clipaging has been, lets say "interesting", since the start.
I've never asked about it - but it looks like the configuration from various parts of EXOS are displayed in sequence; and cli paging only gets a look-in at the end of each section.
So it isn't really a true pager that stops the output every XX lines, and you wouldn't be able to set this properly anyway 😞
You're stuck with it either on or off, I'm afraid.