From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri May 26 14:15:32 1995
Subject: Re: Suggestions
From: torsten martinsen <torsten at kom dot auc dot dk>
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu (Octave mailing list)
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 16:14:30 +0200

>>>>> Eyal Doron <doron at mickey dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de> writes:

Eyal>    Some suggestions:

Eyal> 1) Let the user define a default extension that will be appended to
Eyal>    saved and loaded files. I am specifically thinking of appending
Eyal>    ".mat" to matlab-format files, to be compatible with MATLAB.

This is probably a good idea.

Eyal> 2) Improve the command line history feature (is that possible) to
Eyal>    match the text already typed on the line (again, like in MATLAB).

I do not think this should be the default behaviour (i.e., bound to the
arrow keys). The GNU readline library (which I asssume Octave uses)
already provides the bindable functions
`history-search-[forward,backward]'. These could perhaps be bound to M-n/M-p
(like tcsh does) as default, and users who want complete MATLAB
compliance could then bind them to the arrow keys.

-Torsten