From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jun 14 22:31:56 2005
Subject: Re: Displaying structures
From: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:30:46 -0700

On 6/14/05, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> On 14-Jun-2005, Keith Goodman wrote:
> 
> | Would it be difficult to display structures as matlab does?
> 
>   help struct_levels_to_print

Nice.

I vote for setting the default value of struct_levels_to_print to zero.

When struct_levels_to_print is set to zero it would be handy if Octave
printed out everything that can fit on one line. For example, display

x =
{
      a: [1 2 3 4]
  bbb: 'Now this is nice'
      c: 1x100 matrix
}

instead of (the current behaviour)

x =
{
  a: 1x4 matrix
  bbb: 1x4 sq_string
  c: 1x100 matrix
}

An extra bonus would be to justify the text on the colon instead of
the left margin---much easier to read.

Would you take those changes if someone made a nice patch?



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