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Re: GUI terminal widget


From: Ian McCallion
Subject: Re: GUI terminal widget
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 17:58:35 +0200

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 16:49, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

> Having the capabilities of less would be nice, but I don't see it as
> necessary.  We could also just provide good ways to search in the
> command window without having output paged and that would probably
> satisfy most users.  We've already disabled the pager by default anyway
> because having it enabled seems to confuse new users.  So I don't think
> most GUI users will miss it much even if we provide nothing but scrollbars.

I would personally downvote a pager which seems an archaic way of
getting around text and deeply rooted in UNIX history. So scrollbars,
yes, search, maybe, but working pageup and pagedown keys, yes, and
ability to mark and copy more than a window's worth of text by
automatic scrolling, yes.

(Apologies if this outsider view is out of place on octave-maintainers)

Cheers... Ian



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