Fri 10 Jun 2016 09:05:21 AM UTC, comment #12:
Looks good. Can someone push this?
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Fri 10 Jun 2016 06:11:33 AM UTC, comment #11:
That's one possibility, Anivoam. However, the table makes many other references to ~ too, which was my original reason for not explaining it in the last entry.
MacOS is Unix. Its default shell is bash, which understands ~ (as does tcsh, its previous default shell).
How about the attached changeset?
(file #37443)
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 11:22:53 AM UTC, comment #10:
I tought aboput something like:
"Octave's GUI stores its configuration files in @file{~/.config/octave} (Unix) or @file{%userprofile%\.config\octave} (Windows)"
But was about other systems (Mac?)
BTW, I did check only for Win-7. Can anyone check for
other windows systems (XP and up)?
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 09:47:47 AM UTC, comment #9:
Fancesco, it is a reference to an environment variable named userprofile. I think that if you open a cmd prompt and type "echo %userprofile%" it will print something like "C:/Users/Documents and Settings/..."
Avinoam, would you like to suggest revised wording, or wait until I get around to it?
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 07:46:48 AM UTC, comment #8:
What is %userprofile% ?
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 07:09:52 AM UTC, comment #7:
Yes, I think that the docs should be more explicit about the
windows location (ti translation from ~ to %userprofile% is not
obvoius)
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 06:50:10 AM UTC, comment #6:
Thanks Avinoam. That is what I meant when I wrote "~/.config/octave". The other documentation also refers to "~/", so I'm assuming that Octave programmers know what that translates to on Windows. Do you think the docs should be more explicit?
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 06:28:28 AM UTC, comment #5:
On windows (I have checked o win-7) the GUI configuration files
are stored in %userprofile%\.config\octave
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Tue 07 Jun 2016 11:35:45 AM UTC, comment #4:
It turns out that the location of those configuration files (in particular on Windows) is the subject of an open bug report.
The attached patch documents the current behaviour.
(file #37421)
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Mon 06 Jun 2016 07:44:31 AM UTC, comment #3:
One more thing: I looked for the string "configuration file" but could not find any in all the manual: it would be helpful if such a string appeared in the Startup files chapter.
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Mon 06 Jun 2016 07:43:02 AM UTC, comment #2:
There is a chapter in the manual that is called "Startup files", which is the place where this info should go
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Sun 05 Jun 2016 10:58:16 PM UTC, comment #1:
Francesco, where in the documentation you would look for such information? That will help us to know where to put it.
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Thu 02 Jun 2016 11:56:03 AM UTC, original submission:
The GUI keep its configuraion in ~/.config/octave/, which is undocumented.
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