RE: cd problems

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Apr-2003, Luke Scharf <address@hidden> wrote:

| It sounds like you're in Octave rather than in a Unix shell.  My fault
| -- I made some assumptions about what was going on.
| 
| I hadn't noticed that Octave stays in line-continuation-mode when
| there's a blank line.  Learn something every day.  The way to get out of
| the "cd \" mess is to just type something on one of the lines and press
| enter.

This problem seems to be only true for "commands".  For example, here
is what I see with a simple expression:

  octave:1> 1 + \
  >                        ### a return was typed here...
  parse error:

  >>> 
      ^

but for a command like ls, additional newlines are ignored.  Perhaps
they should not be?  Also, the behavior is the same for "..." as a
continuation marker.

jwe





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