Re: Cut/Paste into Octave Slinky

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 04/26/17 20:22, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> I have Ubuntu 16.04 (sigh...) and octave 4.3.0+ I run in an xterm
> without the gui.
>
> If I cut/paste into octave, it is slinky, a few char appear, a delay, a
> few more char, etc.
>
> If I do this with any other xterm, cut/paste seems instantaneous.
>
> I configure with
> ../octave/configure F77=gfortran --no-recursion
>
> and make produces no errors.
> make check seems Ok.
>
> If I start octave with
> /usr/local/bin/octave, I get the gui, so I use
> /usr/local/bin/octave --no-gui
>
> Actually, I use
>
> /usr/bin/xterm -j -sk -sb -sl 1000 -fn 9x15 -bc -bg white -fg black
> -geometry 80x55 -e octave --no-gui&
>
> from an alias.
>
> Is it possible that allowing qt in the build that I have introduced a
> problem with readline?

To answer the question, If I build octave with qt and start it without 
the gui, then, cut/paste is slinky.

If I build octave without qt and start it normally, cut/paste is 
instantaneous.

Seems to be a problem with readline/qt interaction.

Tom Dean