[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59460] Automatic endfor, endif auto-completion enforced in GUI editor - no way to disable or make matlab-compatible

[Tasos Papastylianou]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #59460 (project octave):

Dear Markus, many thanks for this. (and also to Nick for replying in the
StackOverflow post).

No, you understood the report correctly. I think what happened is that both I
and the originator of this issue (on StackOverflow) must have completely
failed to spot that that particular preferences page (unlike the other pages)
actually had a scrollbar way on the other side of the page.

Perhaps there's a UX point to consider here?

E.g. on my monitor, visually it looks like the "Long Lines" is the last of 3
option headers, and there's no more to consider; apart from the scrollbar
(which is too far to the right compared to the content, and effectively
outside of my visual focus), there is no other visual cue to hint that there
are more options below that point.

Perhaps if the 'headers' appeared collapsed initially, or even if they were
expanded, but they were collapsible more generally, then this might better
hint to the user that more headers exist.

In any case, as far as 'bugs' are concerned though, you are correct in closing
this, however. Many thanks for the reply!

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