[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42135] get(0, 'FormatSpacing') always returns 'loose', should return the "format compact/loose" setting

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #42135 (project octave):

I don't like Matlab's approach to putting interpreter configuration variables
in the graphics root object.  Conceptually the two are unrelated, and I
suspect they did this early on not through infinite wisdom, but because they
didn't have another place to store this kind of data.

In terms of data encapsulation I think it is better to keep Vcompact_format
together with the other format related configuration variables in
pr-output.cc.  For Matlab compatibility, a get/set bridge from the root object
properties to pr-output.cc is necessary.  But my vote would be to go no
further than that.

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