Re: Command history is no longer functioning....

[Miquel Cabanas]

one possibility is that you have changed the file permissions of
".octave_hist" at your home directory,

$ ls -l .octave_hist
-rw-------  1 miquel miquel 6470 2006-04-05 09:25 .octave_hist

you must have write permission to append new commands to this file.

Miquel

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:43 +0100, Bernard Siow wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running octave on FC4 and recently my command history has stopped
> functioning. When I try to recall a command all I get are old commands.
> I've try changing history_size at the octave prompt but recent commands
> are not recalled. I've also tried renaming the history file; octave
> creates a new history_file but does not populate it. I've checked that
> saving_history = 1. I have also run emacs in octave mode... I don't know
> if this makes a difference; but just to make sure I ran octave -i, which
> made no difference.





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