Re: History changes

[Rik]

On 12/20/2012 03:52 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 20-Dec-2012, Rik wrote:
>
> | Also, should we have a sensible default value for N if history is called
> | with no input?  Previously, it would display the entire history starting
> | from 1.  This could be pages worth of text if you keep the default
> | history_size of 1024.  Now, the default is 1 which produces just the last
> | command -- which is always history itself.  This is odd.  See sample
> | session below.
> | 
> | octave:8> x = 1
> | x =  1
> | octave:9> history
> |  1033 history
> | octave:10> history
> |  1034 history
> | 
> | I would think a value for N in the range of 10-20 would be a good default
>
> If we do that, then how do we get all of the entries?  It is not the
> same as the value of history_size.  That's the number of entries to
> save.  You can have more in the current list than that.  So I guess
> I'd vote for having history by itself just print or return them all.
There's a precedent for that.  This is what Octave used to do and it's what
my tcsh shell does for the history command as well.

--Rik