difference between path / pathdef

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:46 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 15-Jan-2008, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> | On 15-Jan-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
> |
> | |   ## A path definition in the user octaverc has precedence over  
> the site
> | |   if numel (user_pathscript)
> | |     try
> | |       eval (user_pathscript);
> | |       val = path;
> | |     catch
> | |       warning (['Path defined in ',user_octaverc,' produced an  
> error'])
> | |     end_try_catch
> |
> | I think we should try to avoid the eval here.  What is the format of
> | user_pathscript?
>
> I checked in the following changes to avoid eval and to also try to
> properly handle paths that contain single quote characters.
>
> Is __extractpath__ only expected to be used in pathdef?  If so, why
> not make it a subfunction of pathdef instead of having it in a
> separate file?
>
> jwe

I was originally hoping to share the code with savepath.m.

Ben