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Re: help: typing 's' on keyboard beeps
From: |
Berni Joss |
Subject: |
Re: help: typing 's' on keyboard beeps |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 13:50:38 +0100 |
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:08:08 -0500
"Steve Goncalo" <address@hidden> wrote:
> No solution, but some questions...
>
> What kind of platform are you on?
Redhat 7.1; kernel 2.4.9-6; i586
> What version of gcc do you have?
2.96
> Are you comparing a precompiled 2.0.16
yes
> to a 2.1.3x that you built yourself?
no; also pre-compiled and distributed by redhat
>
> If you create a script file "SCRIPT.m", can you use
> lowercase s in it (e.g. sin(0) )?
yes, works fine
> If so, I would suspect
> your yacc/lex parser is OK and the problem is somewhere in
> the line editing functions (readline). I have not looked,
> but I suspect there is an option to "configure" which would
> disable the line editing functions.
>
> Can you try running the same binary from a different user name
> just to see if there might be something in your environment setup
> that is causing trouble?
Yes! I hadn't thought of this :-((
Lower case 's' works fine from a different user ... I'will investigate further.
Will let you know what I find out.
Thank you all who responded so far,
Berni.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Berni Joss [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 3:37 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: help: typing 's' on keyboard beeps
>
>
> Using octave 2.1.33 or 2.1.34 I am unable to type the lowercase letter 's'
> into octave's command window!
> Whenever I hit the 's' key on the keyboard octave beeps, but otherwise
> ignores
> the key code. As you would guess, this is quit annoying :-(
>
> Uppercase 'S' (shift-key + 's') works fine!
>
> octave 2.0.16 works fine.
>
> Anybody has any clues about what might be happening?
> Is this a known feature/bug? By the way I failed finding any list of known
> bugs
> for version 2.1.33/34; is there one?
>
> Any hints/help are much appreciated.
> Thanks, Berni.
>
>
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