From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Nov 1 07:22:46 2001 Subject: RE: help: typing 's' on keyboard beeps From: sgoncalo To: "'Berni Joss'" , "sgoncalo@tif623.ed.ray.com" Cc: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:22:06 -0500 I had been running Mandrake with a copy of Octave 2.1.34 which I compiled from source. I went over to Red Hat 7.1 because of some problems I had with mandrakes network config tools. I had to turn off optimization when I did a configure because of problems with gcc 2.96, but everything compiled and ran fine after that. I never tried the precompiled octave. X has some keymapping features that I don't know much about, but maybe there is something evil hiding in your user config files (the hidden .xxxx files). Try switching between KDE and Gnome, or using a different xterminal to narrow down your search.. -----Original Message----- From: Berni Joss [SMTP:berni_13 at yahoo dot com] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 7:51 AM To: sgoncalo at tif623 dot ed dot ray dot com Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Subject: Re: help: typing 's' on keyboard beeps On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:08:08 -0500 "Steve Goncalo" 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:berni_13 at yahoo dot com] > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 3:37 PM > To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu > 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. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------