~/.octaverc and OCTAVE_HISTSIZE

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

>> 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
>
> Have you looked in the manual?

Yes.  I didn't see any examples of octaverc files or any clear information 
on just how the octaverc works.  I was thinking environment strings might 
be entered there but that was not correct.  Environment strings seem to be 
for the originating environment and are not internal to Octave. 
Apparently ~/.octaverc is just a list of octave commands to be executed at 
startup.  Is that correct?  (I've used octave for maybe 13 years but I 
haven't used ~/.octaverc until now.)


> For current Octave versions, this is the command you should give either 
> at Octave's command line or in ~/.octaverc:
>
> history_size(20000);

Thanks.  I think the effect is the same without the semi-colon, which is 
what I just tried a minute before your message came in.

Mike