On 03/09/2016 11:37 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote: > Le 09/03/2016 14:21, Stephen a écrit : >> Different is not the problem, going backwards by implementing a bad >> design is the problem. Easier to use, faster in use, and more intuitive >> to use, all of those are good; sadly a scrollable single line command >> entry area with a kludge to echo the commands to the output area, is >> none of those things. When compared to using print statements in the >> code it is a (marginal) improvement... an evolutionary step, the next of >> which would be to become what it replaced. >> >> Anyway, my moaning about it isn't getting the code debugged, which was >> that caused a "WTF" moment and these messages, nor is it making life >> better by replacing what we lost. Is it (the console) written entirely >> in GAMBAS? If I can get some time I might do something about it. >> > The problem was that before, some users thought that the IDE console was > a true terminal, whereas it was just a read-only text-editor with > tweaks. Which lead to confusion. > > I agree that the new interface is not very nice, but there is no > confusion anymore that way. > > Moreover, it has a command history, which was impossible with the > previous interface. > > And as said Fabien, as soon as he will be able to produce a true > terminal emulator, we will be able to go back to a terminal-like interface. > > Regards, > Some users being confused could have been fixed with education. The original didn't have a command history like bash, but it did let you scroll up, place your cursor st the end of a command and press [Enter] to execute it again, or edit the line and execute it, or copy the line, past it, edit it and execute it. --
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