Re: 3 smaller issues: (stratup and 2 readline)

[Levente Torok]

On Wednesday 10 September 2008, you wrote:
> On 10-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:
> 
> | 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 <address@hidden>  
> | that comes down to the editing.
> | Personally, I would avoid it.
> 
> Does
> 
>   history_timestamp_format_string ("");
> 
> eliminate the timestamp for you?

Yes. It does!!!
Thanks.

> 
> | 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?
> 
> I think this happens because now the up and down arrow keys are bound
> to the readline functions history-search-backward and
> history-search-forward.  These commands use the current line to search
> the history list.  This change was made because we had people
> complaining that Matlab had this feature.  It is enabled in the
> gnu_readline::gnu_readline constructor in liboctave/cmd-edit.cc.
> Other than modifying that function, I don't see a way to disable it.
> Perhaps instead of doing
> 
>   // And the history search functions.
> 
>   octave_rl_add_defun ("history-search-backward",
>                        gnu_readline::history_search_backward,
>                        octave_rl_meta ('P'));
> 
>   octave_rl_add_defun ("history-search-forward",
>                        gnu_readline::history_search_forward,
>                        octave_rl_meta ('N'));
> 
> we could read a default inputrc file for readline.  I'd consider a
> patch.

I understand.
Thank you very much. This is not the most urgent issue I guess.


Lev

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