From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Apr 5 13:30:23 2006 Subject: Re: addpath, rmpath, savepath From: "Keith Goodman" To: "Robert S. Weigel" Cc: bug at octave dot org Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:28:44 -0700 On 4/5/06, Robert S. Weigel wrote: > Also, you will notice that '.' gets pushed down in the path list. This is a > problem that caught me a few times. Matlab always has '.' first in the path > list (and it is not listed by when "path" is invoked, but I think it is > better to list it). Keeping '.' on top sounds like a good idea to me. > Also, I suggest a warning about incompatable behavior when the (extremely > useful) "//" syntax is used. I wouldn't want to see the warning. If you're going for compatibility then how about expanding tmp// to list out all of the directories under tmp? If a new directory is created, such as tmp/new/, then it will not automatically be added to the path. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------