rearranging vectors/matrices

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Oct-1998, Ferdinand Schinagl <address@hidden> wrote:

| the following concerns debian's most
| recent package of octave-2.0.13
| (debian release hamm-2r2):
| 
| I can rearrange vectors by using e.g.:
| x(:)
| in matlab 5.2.x,
| however octave does not mimic this behaviour
| in all details. Though it's possible to do
| 
| octave:1> x=[1,2,3]
| x =
| 
|   1  2  3
| 
| octave:2> a(:)=x
| a =
| 
|   1
|   2
|   3
|      
| it does not work for, regardless of what
| "prefer_column_vectors" is set to, doing:
| 
| octave:3> x(:)=x
| x =
| 
|   1  2  3
| 
| octave:4> x(:)
| ans =
| 
|   1  2  3 
| 
| However matlab(tm) yields:
| 
| >> x
| 
| x =
| 
|      1     2     3
| 
| >> x(:)
| 
| ans =
| 
|      1
|      2
|      3  
| 
| Is there a way to enable this feature?
| Are there any concerns?

Try using `do_fortran_indexing = 1'.

Sorry that that's not a very good name for the variable that controls
this feature...

jwe