Re: Problem with the command window of the GUI

[Torsten]

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