From: Dag Lindbo on
"mark p" <markmp(a)removemeplease.yahoo.com> wrote in message <gr3ueq$b23$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Alan " <public1(a)endemeo.com> wrote in message <gnl9tv$l29$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> > I've submitted this behavior as a new bug report. The carriage return should be a simple carriage return, just as the documentation describes, not a new line.
> >
> > > Patrick wrote:
> > >> It's a pity that the carriage return '\r' works the same as a newline '\n' in the
> > >> Matlab console (or maybe I'm missing something),
>
> The \r does the right thing when you run matlab in console (-nodisplay) mode. But it forces a newline for me when I fire up the full desktop. God this is annoying. How on earth did they miss something so simple like this? Anyone know a workaround?

This is precisely what I'm seeing and it makes me quite annoyed too! Has there been any progress?