bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #50594, documentation for startup.m

 
 

bug #50594: documentation for startup.m

Submitter:  Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>
Submitted:  Mon 20 Mar 2017 01:03:45 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  ernstreissner Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Mon 20 Mar 2017 04:04:04 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It's unclear because we don't propose that people use the startup.m mechanism.  However, if you prepare a documentation patch we would apply it.

There is a command in the sitewide octave-versioned initfile that executes the startup script.


## For Matlab compatibility, run startup.m when starting Octave.
if (exist ("startup", "file"))
  startup;  # No arg list here since startup might be a script.
endif



 Rik <rik5>
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Mon 20 Mar 2017 01:03:45 PM UTC, original submission:  

According to
https://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/startup.html,
matlab reads startup.m at startup
searching for startup.m in the search path.
In the manual Section 2.1.2, nothing is told about the location
of startup.m
There should be a word on the location.
Also, it remains unclear in which ordering startup.m is read.
For the rest it is clear: first the site init file octaverc,
then the version init file octavercand then the personal init file ~/.octaverc and finally the session specific file .octaverc
in the current directory.
Unclear is where reading of startup.m fits into this picture.

Ernst Reissner <ernstreissner>

 

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