Re: ~/.octaverc and OCTAVE_HISTSIZE

[Michael Goffioul]

AFAIK, ~/.octaverc is source'ed, so you can basically put any
valid octave command in it.

Michael.


On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have done a lot of searching but I come up relatively empty-handed.  I
> would have thought there would be a sample .octaverc somewhere out there,
> or some clear instruction on what sorts of things can go in the octaverc.
>
> I want to set OCTAVE_HISTSIZE to some value.  I tried this in the
> ~/.octaverc file but I think it was not doing what I want:
>
> OCTAVE_HISTSIZE=20000
>
> This worked from the bash command line:
>
> export OCTAVE_HISTSIZE=20000
>
> But I would prefer not to have to include that in the ~/.bashrc because it
> is octave-specific.  I think it should go on ~/.octaverc, but I don't know
> how that is supposed to be done.  So what's the trick?  Thanks in advance.
>
> Mike
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