Re: [Bug-apl] location of cursor on new apl session

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi,

what you see is the intended behavior.

When you start GNU APL then the terminal is being reset (clear screen) so that we can print the
welcome banner. After that all user input is entered at the bottom of the screen.

This is more portable than grabbing the input at the middle of the screen because you can do it
without ESCape sequences for cursor positioning. Everything is based on the ASCII characters
CR, LF, and Backspace, wehich are more portable than ESC sequences.
 It also works better in scripts and pipes, eg. for web interfaces, and with virtual terminals like xterm.

/// Jürgen

On 01/27/2017 11:56 PM, address@hidden wrote:

In all my previous apl installations the cursor in an xterm was at the top of the xterm -  it stays there for 1.3  but with 1.6 and now 863  i can see it start at the top when first opened but then goes to the bottom and indents - any ideas?

I have 1.3 1.6 and 863 all installed on same computer