Re: Problem with the command window of the GUI

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/05/2013 09:37 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 11/05/2013 02:52 AM, Julien Bect wrote:
> > On 05/11/2013 05:27, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > > I applied Dan's patch to align at the bottom.
> > > Thanks,
> > > jwe
> >
> > Great, this solves the problem for me, thank you.
> >
> > However, the first line "GNU Octave, version 3.7.7+" is now truncated
> > when I run octave (see attachement).
>
> Yes, that is the issue that Torsten pointed out and why this has been
> left unaddressed for a while--no real good solution other than a
> slightly more complex routine to align at the top unless the window is
> full then align at the bottom. I made an attempt at the time, but it
> didn't seem elegant.
>
> I doubt at this stage near a release we want to try something too
> significant, so I propose as a quick solution we could add an extra
> whitespace line at the start of the buffer. Could you try that? Just
> search for "GNU Octave, v" in the source tree and add an extra line and
> rebuild. If that seems to behave OK for now, we'll try to add the line
> not in the text string, but at the point at which the GUI creates the
> term object.

How about the attached change instead?  It seems to work for me, but I 
admit that I don't fully understand the way the layout is supposed to 
work in the terminal.

My intent here is to compute the number of full lines and columns that 
can be displayed instead of rounding up and computing a number of lines 
or columns that is too large to be completely displayed.

jwe

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