I think smoutput itself does not output the trailing LF,  it is the
job of the front-end. Also trailing LF will be suppressed for EMPTY.
I am not sure if your suggestion is better than the current behavior.
Anyway, perhaps you can append trailing LF when smoutput inside timer
or websocket events
.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
> The cursor is visible, and moves, and I can enter data.  The problem is,
> there is no blank line to enter data into.  When I run what I gave you
> before, I see
>
>
> load 'c:/users/henryrich/j803-user/temp/2.ijs'
>    wd 'timer 1000'
>
> one line|<-----------------------cursor is here
> /////////////////////////////
> ///// inaccessible area /////
> ...
>
> I can't cursor down to an empty line, so I have to back up over the
> text that was typed.
>
> Henry Rich
>
>
> On 11/13/2014 7:23 PM, bill lam wrote:
>>
>> I guess the cursor is only visible if a widget had keyboard input focus.
>> Can you confirm by typing something with keyboard?
>>
>> On 14.11.2014, at 7:18, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> To produce the problem, define
>>>
>>> sys_timer_z_ =: 3 : 0
>>> smoutput 'one line'
>>> wd 'timer 0'
>>> )
>>>
>>> And then type in
>>>
>>> wd 'timer 1000'
>>>
>>>
>>> Henry Rich
>>>
>>> On 11/13/2014 5:29 PM, chris burke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what is going on, but please also check if you have the
>>>> same
>>>> problem when smoutput is entered from the terminal, or run from a script
>>>> in
>>>> the IDE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The line was in a websocket handler.  It was simply
>>>>>
>>>>> smoutput wss0_jrx_
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps the problem is that the line is being invoked as a response to
>>>>> a
>>>>> socket event, without any keyboard action?
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem was at school, so I don't have the version on me, but I
>>>>> installed on all machines yesterday, and updated with Package Manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> Henry Rich
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/13/2014 3:05 PM, chris burke wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot duplicate this, and smoutput works fine for me. What version
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> you running, and how are you entering the smoutput sentence?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Henry Rich <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   smoutput 'xxx'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> prints xxx, but it leaves the cursor on the printed line, which is
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> last line of the display.  So, there is no easy way to type a new
>>>>>>> line.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I suggest that it should append another empty line (indented 3
>>>>>>> spaces) to
>>>>>>> allow for another command.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Henry Rich
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