[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57208] comment lines typed at command line are no longer ended with a newline

[Rik]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57208>

                 Summary: comment lines typed at command line are no longer
ended with a newline
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: rik5
            Submitted on: Mon 11 Nov 2019 01:11:20 PM PST
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Regression
                  Status: Confirmed
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Comment lines typed at the command line are no longer terminated with a
newline.  Instead, they shift the parser in to multi-line mode.

Sample session:


octave:5> ## A comment line
> sin (5)
octave:5> sin (5)
ans = -0.9589
octave:6> diary off


You can see that after the newline following the comment line the parser
shifts to multi-line mode because the prompt changes.  When the second line is
ended with a newline, nothing is executed which is shown by the fact that
there is no output 'ans' and the command number is not incremented from 5.  On
the other hand, just typing "sin (5)" does exactly what you expect in that it
produces an answer and increments the command number.





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