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Re: using command number in octave:1>


From: David Grundberg
Subject: Re: using command number in octave:1>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:04:11 +0200
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David Grundberg skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> when you start Octave, it shows you a prompt, like this:
> 
> octave:1>
> 
> That follows from PS1, set to '\s:\#> '.  I read the docs and \# is 
> apparently called the "command number".  (Not the same concept as 
> "history number".)
> 
> I searched for command number in the bash manual and in the readline 
> user manual, but I can't find what use it has.  Can I feed it back into 
> readline?  Can I use it to reference previous commands?
> 
> David

Seriously, nobody knows what that number is there for and how you use it?

David


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