Re: path handling

[Bill Denney]

On Thu, 11 May 2006, John Swensen wrote:

> Would you be willing to accept a patch for an additional function that 
> takes all the directories in the search path and makes a more terse 
> list?  For example a function called terse_path() would return something 
> like
> [ '.'
>  '/home/jswensen/m'
>  '/home/jswensen/pkg/m//'
>  '/usr/share/octave-2.9.5+/blah//' ]
>
> where the '//' at the end indicates the directories are recursive.  I
> just know that if I ever have a deep tree of M files, and want to know
> which path comes first in the search path, it can get *really* ugly.

It would probably be more useful and drive fewer user questions if it 
generated commands that would regenerate the path like:

addpath ('.');
addpath ('/home/jswensen/m');
addpath (genpath ('/home/jswensen/pkg/m'));
addpath (genpath ('/usr/share/octave-2.9.5+/blah');

Bill

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