On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 15:29 +0200, Antoine Monmayrant wrote: > Le Samedi 23 Mai 2015 00:05 CEST, Samuel Gougeon <[email protected]> a écrit: > > > Hello Tim, > > > > Le 21/05/2015 17:48, Tim Wescott a écrit : > > > .../... > > > First, is there a way to get it to stop? ctrl-C does not do the job. > > In your startup file .scilab or scilab.ini, you may add the instruction > > lines(1000) > > in order to turn on the pager and make it prompting the user to continue > > listing lines after each block of 1000 lines (or whatever you want). > > At the prompt, CTRL+C + abort works. > > OK, but this also interrupts the execution of any script that display more > than 1000 lines on the command line! > This can be particularly annoying when using scripts that process big data > and output some progression infos on the command line. > It's never nice to find out the next morning that your script stopped at 10% > to ask whether it should keep on displaying text. > For me, this is more a workaround (with one big caveat) than a real solution. > The Julia way of displaying big matrices seems interesting. > Would it be hard to implement? > (honest question, I have no idea what work it implies) > As someone filled a bug/feature request?
Argh. I just did the lines(1000) thing, and now I think I'm going to take it out, because I do NOT want this to happen! Is it all that hard to interrupt the display of a large matrix with ctrl-C? (I vote for the Julia way of displaying things, even though I have no clue what Julia is, BTW). -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
