On 07/27/2018 08:50 AM, Ian McCallion wrote:
> If there is agreement on this perhaps there is also agreement that the
> priority of the one Windows 10 show-stopping bug left should be
> increased. Windows 10 came out 3 years ago and it does not look good
> that Octave does not yet officially support it.
Can you help fix the problems?
Fair question and one I asked myself a while ago but the answer is no. I retired 20 years ago after 30 years in software dev, but I have zero experience with Unix. That said, if someone can point me to the relevant Octave or Posix modules I will attempt to research what windows changes caused the issue to crop up.
Some new discussion on the bug tracker
windows is "modernizing" its terminal. Unclear what exact change to the console is causing the scrolling issue and if there's a way to change octave's approach to using it that wont break non win10 usage. There is supposedly a registry setting in windows to turn off all new features that could be set by the installer, but no success yet. That also seems like a rather limited approach, but I haven't seen any other ms dev info indicating another approach.