Re: Matlab incompatibility: cd and which

[PhilipNienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 10/14/2013 03:36 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
>> Michael Goffioul wrote
>>> 
> <snip>
>>> 2) "cd" without argument changes to home dir, while in Matlab it simply
>>> returns the current directory.
>>
>> Also on Linux-based Matlab? or only on Windows? (could be OS-dependent)
>> I can't test now, my ML prerelease has expired a few weeks ago.
>>
>> What does ML do on Mac OSX?
> 
> I don't think the behavior is dependent on the OS.  There is certainly 
> no mention of that in the Matlab docs.

Hmm... there's more mention of Matlab behavior missing in their docs :-)

But I agree the on-line ML doc for "cd" is quite unambiguous.

And at least the effect of "cd" is consistent between Windows and Mac OSX.

Perhaps it can be made configurable; but I can't imagine that to be a high
priorty.

Philip




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