Re: unable to show or get editor pane in octave gui (qt)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 10:45 PM Torsten Lilge <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 09:30 -0400, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:51 AM sherin <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Thank you for your help. It got it.
> >
> >
> > Glad it worked out. Sorry for leading you down the wrong path for a
> > while.
> >
> > Kai, seems to me part of the confusion was the fact that the GUI still
> > indicated the presence of the editor even though it wasn't available.
> > I'm not familiar with what's under the hood with the GUI, but is it
> > conceivable that it could be made to not show a toggle-able display
> > option if its not there? Either not listed or grayed out or
> > something?
>
> This issue was already popping up some time ago and was fixed with cset
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/922c47ff5218
>
> Torsten
>


Agree to Torsten. In general there was no indication for an existing
built-in editor. The gray out in the top window menu looks not good on
macOS. Maybe this is why there was hope to open the editor even it not
existed?!

Kai