GUI RPC Console: ensure we scroll to the end of the QTextEdit after appending #1297

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I'd argue that the current behavior is "normal console behavior":

• when you are scrolled down, it will scroll down on appended text
• when you manually scrolled up, it leaves the focus alone until you go to the end again

Scrolling on append can be annoying when you're reading something in history and it suddenly jumps (currently not an issue as all output is a direct response, but that will change when error/debug output is added).

If you want to add automatic scrolling to the end, do it when the user entered a command. This is similar to gnome-terminal etc.

In Windows the behaviour on the cmd-prompt is to scroll down, even if you manually scrolled up and that's what I was missing here. I understand your hint, that it get's annoying, when messages are appended automatically.

Scrolling to the end after the user entered a command looks kind of ugly, as you only see the entered command then, but not the output. But I will rework this, to consider auto-messages!

I don't think that's true. Have you tried it? If you scroll down after the user command, I think the internal logic of qtextedit will make sure it stays at the end when the reply comes.

@laanwj To be more clear, I was referring to a WIndows command prompt, not the RPC Console, when I talked about what I as Win-user expect from such a RPC Console ;), sorry.

Updated to only do this for non MC_ERROR and MC_DEBUG messages.

See #1301 for my take on this...

Fixed by #1301, closing this one!