Re: Really Long Command Prompt

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

The setting default prompt of octave/mingw32 at the octave-forge site is 
intentional.

In octave-home/share/octave/version/m/startup/octaverc 

## set default prompt

PS1("\\s:\\#:\\w\n> ");






The above setting is done by Benjamin.
 
Just comment out or delete the above, the prompt is represent as you said as

octave.exe:1>
(In the case that 'octave.exe' is executed )
or 
octave-3.2.3.exe:1>
(In the case that 'octave-3.2.3.exe' is executed )

Regards

Tatsuro


--- "John W. Eaton" wrote:

> On 19-Jan-2010, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> 
> | This is frequently asked.
> | 
> | The below is one of the examples.
> | 
> | Please search your home directry by 
> | octave:5> tilde_expand ('~')
> | ans = D:\usr\Tatsu
> | 
> | In the above example (my case), I made '.octaverc' in D:\usr\Tatsu
> |  and edit it by a suitable text editor (you can use notepad++ in octave for 
> windows.)
> | as
> | 
> | #begining of .octaverc
> | #
> | PS1("octave:\\#> ");
> | 
> | # end of .octaverc
> 
> What is the default for PS1 in the Windows build of Octave that is
> distributed on the Octave Forge site?
> 
> The default in the Octave sources is "\\s:\\#> ", and looking at the
> code in cmd-edit.cc that decodes prompt strings, this should take the
> full name of the program that is executed and trim off all but the
> last component of the file name, so you should be left with something
> like
> 
>   octave.exe:1> 
> 
> If the default has been changed for the Windows binary on Octave
> Forge, why was that done?
> 
> If the default is being used and the code that shortens the full file
> name is not working properly, then could someone please debug the
> problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
> 


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