Re: .octave_hist content

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jan-2011, CdeMills wrote:

| Following one of Larry Wall's "virtue", namelly laziness, please find
| enclosed a patch against 3.3.54+ to implement duplicate removal. No
| conditionnal inclusion, it just sits there. The principle is to use
| libhistory "history_search" function, which performs comparisons on whole
| strings. If there is a match, the old entry is removed and the new one
| added. This way, only the freshest one is kept. 
| 
| Regards
| 
| Pascal
| http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n3209428/hist_ignore_dup.pat
| hist_ignore_dup.pat  

I'm not going to do this unconditionally because some people like to
step through the history list with C-o (operate-and-get-next) and
ignoring all duplicates screws that up.  So it must be optional.

jwe