Re: default ~/.octaverc template

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Apr-2005, Keith Goodman wrote:

| ## Set command-line prompt.
| ##
| ## PS1 = ">> ";

Why would you want a prompt that doesn't give any additional useful
information like line numbers, or tell you what program you are
running?

| ## What is the maximum number of commands the history file should
| ## contain? The default is 1024.
| ##
| ## history_size = 256;

Why would you want to shorten the history list?

| ## Octave should try to ring your terminal's bell before printing an error
| ## message. The default value is to not try.
| ##
| ## beep_on_error = 1;

Really, you want this?

| ## Do not warn if the name of a function defined in a function file differs
| ## from the name of the file.
| ##
| ## warn_function_name_clash = 0;

Does this problem happen so often for you that it is an annoying
warning?

jwe