[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46881] grey/gray

[Lachlan Andrew]

Update of bug #46881 (project octave):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                 Release:                   4.0.0 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #6:

Nicholas, you absolutely right that this type of "user experience" issue is
where Octave can really be better than Matlab.  For those of us who need to
write Matlab-compatible code, this is much more important than incompatible
language extensions (even though things like += are amazingly useful).

Matlab (R2013b) doesn't use a lookup table for this.  It recognizes when I
mistype a long variable.  It seems to check for matches against variables that
are at least four characters, even if I only type three.

Regarding "interp", I get


>> intep
Undefined function or variable 'intep'.
 
Did you mean:
>> interp



I like the fact that only ENTER is required to execute the suggested command. 
In the GUI, it would be possible to have a pop-up with multiple options, so
that again only ENTER is required to select the "most likely" one, whatever
that means.

GOSC is a good idea.  Do you have the time to write a project specification
for it?

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