Re: saving Octave state?

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Nov-2010, Mike Miller wrote:

| I decided to mimic the R filenames and call the data and history files 
| .OData and .Ohistory (instead of .RData and .Rhistory).  This is in my 
| ~/.octaverc file:
| 
| 
| history_file (".Ohistory");
| if ( exist(".OData", "file") == 2 )
|     load(".OData") ;
| endif
| 
| 
| So it automatically loads history and data, if they are present.  I'm not 
| sure if any aspect of the state of the previous instance of Octave would 
| be missed when I launch Octave in the same directory if I had done this 
| just before quitting the previous time:
| 
| save .OData
| 
| What do you think?

Use a function to do this with atexit if you want to ensure that this
happens every time Octave quits.

The only thing I can think of that you are not saving is the internal
state managed by functions like more, octave_core_file_name,
output_precision, etc.  If you have changed any of these from their
defaults, that info will not be saved and restored automatically.

jwe