[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54056] many editor keys just print escape codes in gui command window

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #54056 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 1 - Later              
              Item Group:                    None => Feature Request        
                  Status:               Need Info => Postponed              

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Follow-up Comment #3:

According to that same Wikipedia page

> CUA never had significant impact on the design of Unix terminal
(character-mode) applications, which preceded CUA by more than a decade.

The Octave command window is a terminal-mode entry area, not an editor buffer.
Text can be edited with the cursor line-by-line only, and can be deleted, cut,
and pasted using standard readline commands, but not like an editor. So it is
not expected that these types of interactions will work on the command window
as it is implemented now.

It has been discussed earlier whether the command window should be rewritten
to no longer be a terminal emulator, but be a text buffer entirely under the
control of Qt. That is a much larger undertaking than adding support for some
keyboard shortcuts. But supporting these kinds of interactions would be a
side-effect of changing the command window from a line-oriented terminal
emulator to a text buffer.

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