Re: Interest in selectively deleting history entries.

[Philip Nienhuis]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 09/21/2014 04:23 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> > Daniel Sebald wrote
> > > On 09/21/2014 12:50 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> > > > Daniel Sebald wrote
> > > > > I'm curious what people's thoughts are on the ability to selectively
> > > > > delete individual lines of history.  What I see it used for, in

<snip>

> > (3) Maybe replace a wiped line by a (hidden?) comment (##) if line
> > numbering
> > is to remain consecutive (w/o holes).
>
> That would be another way of doing it.  If there is a hidden placeholder
> in the list, one could still compute the line number without having to
> store it along with the command.

If a suitable code is chosen as comment, Octave can be instructed to 
drop the entry when it is writing the history to file.

Philip