Re: Problem with the command window of the GUI

[Richard Crozier]

On 04/11/2013 12:14, Torsten wrote:
> On 04.11.2013 12:58, Torsten wrote:
> > On 04.11.2013 12:18, Richard Crozier wrote:
> > > On 04/11/2013 10:40, Julien Bect wrote:
> > > > Dear maintainers,
> > > >
> > > > I have a slightly annoying problem with the GUI : if I simply start the
> > > > GUI (run-octave) and then type "help plot", I end up with my prompt
> > > > being truncated, at the bottom of the command window. The only way i
> > > > could find, to get out of this situation, was to type "clc"...
> > > >
> > > > See attached screenshot (Ubuntu 13.04 with Octave 3.7.7+, 6b787e274eb1,
> > > > freshly built).
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if I'm the only one seing this... Should I file a bug
> > > > report ?
> > > >
> > > > @++
> > > > Julien
> > >
> > >
> > > I also used to see this, but it had seemed to have gone away recently,
> > > so I never reported it. Perhaps it just takes a particular length of
> > > text to produce it though.
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> > I still see this behavior. There are pathces for this issue in
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8091 but the discussion have never been
> > finished. The last patch version truncates the first line of the startup
> > message.
> >
> > Torsten
>
> I forgot to mention the discussion before the patches in
> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2013-June/034572.html
>
> Torsten

ok, further to this I might add that Matlab's solution is the fractional 
line at top behaviour. I didn't see this mentioned in the thread, but 
there was a question of what do other terminals do, and the ML one seems 
relevant (although I know we are not replicating their GUI, at least 
hopefully not, now that they are ruining it with a ribbon interface).

Richard

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