Am I the only one who is annoyed by the functionality of the spool subtab?
It used to work almost fine in 6.1 - since 6.2 it’s almost useless. I hoped it would improve with the new version 6.3. But I am disappointed again .
Things that worked in 6.1 and are now missing:
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After switching the tab with Alt-F6, I was able to navigate within the tab using cursor keys, just like within the ‘script’ or ‘editing’ tab. ALL WITHOUT the need of a mouse.
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The cursor in the spool tab is missing and the output of the spool tab is not repositioned. When you switch to the spool tab in Version 6.1 a cursor-caret was displayed right at the beginning of the last command you’ve executed. Since 6.2 there is no caret at all and hence the output is not repositioned.
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Highlight Text excerpts stream or block wise in the spool windows was possible in 6.1 and now is gone. You can only highlight complete lines - and only using a mouse.
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Setting of bookmarks in the spool window was possible in 6.1 and now is gone!
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Searching within the spool tab was possible in 6.1 and now is gone!
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The output of date values is truncated in spool tabs - this has already been reported at 6.0 I believe and still isn’t fixed.
You may say, that almost all of these features are available, when I copy the entire spool output into a new code editor window. But apparently this not quite the same. For a start: The copied text in the new code editor window is not write protected. I can unintentionally corrupt the spool output. The output in the code editor is not appended, when I run commands in my original script window again. And I can’t jump back and forth using the bookmarks after I re-ran commands.
I am courious what you think about these issues.
- Markus