3 smaller issues: stratup and 2 readline

[Levente Torok]

Hi,

1) Starting the octave-3 is very slow compared to 2.1.x versions.
Is it known what causes this slowing down?
Is it some sort of cache generation from the functions that are accessible on path?
Is there any way to speed it up?

2) This is not clear if it is an inteded behavior or simply something is forgotten.
I regularily use octave_history in way that I push up arrow. It worked across sessions.
In oct-3 I experienced that the session ending inserts an extra line into the history
# Octave 3.0.1, Wed Sep 10 15:04:42 2008 CEST <lev at red>  
that comes down to the editing.
Personally, I would avoid it.

3) After pressing up arrow  and going into the line by pressing left arrow, the earlier history access is
not possible. I mean, if I push up arrow again it does nothing. In oct-2 it returned the even more early
entered lines. This is the same as bash uses readline and personally I like this. Is
it an intended behaviour or a side effect?

Lev

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