Re: clumsy patch for h = history (n)

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:13 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 19-Dec-2012, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | Jordi has pushed a changesets that enable "history" to return a cell-string 
> of the history.
> | 
> |     http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/dbb7896f15c7
> |     http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1eee8d8c59fd
> | 
> | These were in response to the feature request below.
> | 
> |     https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37947
> | 
> | At present to return the last N commands a string representation of N must 
> be passed.  For example, 
> | 
> |     last_10_commands = history ("10");
> | 
> | And passing a numeric value gives an error.
> | 
> |     last_10_commands = history (10)
> |     error: history: expecting all arguments to be strings
> | 
> | Fixing this "correctly" on the c++ side is a lot of work.  A job I am not 
> able to do, and one Jordi doesn't have time for.
> 
> How about starting with the following changeset?  It may need some
> additional changes to the doc strings.
> 
> jwe

Perhaps the return cell-strings shouldn' t include the indices?

>> a = history (10)
a = 
{
  [1,1] =  1018 a = history (10)
  [2,1] =  1019 history 10
  [3,1] =  1020 history 10 -q
  [4,1] =  1021 history (10)
  [5,1] =  1022 a = history (10)
  [6,1] =  1023 quit
  [7,1] =  1024 # Octave 3.7.0+, Wed Dec 19 13:20:37 2012 EST <address@hidden>
  [8,1] =  1025 history (1)
  [9,1] =  1026 a = history (1)
  [10,1] =  1027 a = history (10)
}

Ben