Re: Problem with the command window of the GUI

[Torsten]

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