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Re: History changes
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John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: History changes |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:52:44 -0500 |
On 20-Dec-2012, Rik wrote:
| Also, should we have a sensible default value for N if history is called
| with no input? Previously, it would display the entire history starting
| from 1. This could be pages worth of text if you keep the default
| history_size of 1024. Now, the default is 1 which produces just the last
| command -- which is always history itself. This is odd. See sample
| session below.
|
| octave:8> x = 1
| x = 1
| octave:9> history
| 1033 history
| octave:10> history
| 1034 history
|
| I would think a value for N in the range of 10-20 would be a good default
If we do that, then how do we get all of the entries? It is not the
same as the value of history_size. That's the number of entries to
save. You can have more in the current list than that. So I guess
I'd vote for having history by itself just print or return them all.
Or, maybe we should be limiting the number of elements in the history
list to history_size?
jwe