[Gretl-devel] Re: Pasting a line in the console with a line break at the end

On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:40 AM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > when pasting any kind of content into gretl's console, but with a line > break at the end, and then hitting return, gretl just ignores it and > presents a new prompt sign ("?"). > > This is of course no big deal, but for consistency I would expect one of > the following behaviors: > > 1) Either the newline at the end is interpreted as "Return", and so the > evaluation of the input happens (including error messages if appropriate). > > 2) Or the input with the newline is considered to be wrong anyway, and > so the corresponding error message would show up. How about (3), the text to be pasted is truncated at the first newline? So the line would sit there ready for execution.