Re: REQUEST: change in replay history

[Mario Storti]

>>>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:09:28 +0200 (SAT), 
>>>>>      Dirk Laurie <address@hidden> said:

> I have just been  trying to find the previous  command after  a long
> debugging session in which every  command was 'return'.  After sixty
> or so  'return'   replays, I  gave  up.   I   couldn't suppress  the
> treacherous thought  that Matlab 3.5, which I  still use  on my slow
> machine at home, does not add a command to the  replay history if it
> is identical to the previous one.

> Would it require more than a simple string comparison to make Octave
> behave like that too?

> Dirk

I can not give a specific answer  to your problem,  I think that these
features  come with the 'readline' package.  I  don't know what can be
done from the Octave side. Perhaps  a workaround to solve your problem
is to grep the ~/.octave_hist file and cut-and-paste into the Octave's
command line.

I just want to point the wonderful history recovery mechanism that you
have if using the inferior-octave package under Emacs (due to (correct
me if I'm wrong) Kurt Hornik and JWE  itself).  First, you can recover
specific  lines  by  entering  the beginning   of   the line and  then
"<Ctrl-c><Ctrl-b>".  Includes  commands  of   previous sessions.    In
addition  you can use  all  the power of   'the Editor'  (just not  to
mention His name, see

http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/religion/)  

to find   the command in  the  buffer which  contains all  your Octave
session, and  edit it.  Documentation  of the Octave  package for 'the
Editor' comes with the Octave's manual.

Mario

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