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

Kai Torben Ohlhus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 11:40 PM Torsten Lilge <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-09-18 at 12:15 +0900, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> Do you think it would be better to hide the editor related menu entries
> instead of hiding them?
>
> Torsten


You mean instead of graying out?  I think it is not too hard to add
qscintilla support once qt support is given to build the complete GUI, as
this example shows.  In the now fixed case for macOS and Homebrew it would
have been better.  But I hope it is fixed now and no action necessary 🙂

Kai
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