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7.5 Defaults from the Environment

Octave uses the values of the following environment variables to set the default values for the corresponding built-in or internal variables. In addition, the values from the environment may be overridden by command-line arguments. See Command Line Options.

EDITOR
See Commands For History.

Built-in variable: EDITOR.

OCTAVE_EXEC_PATH
See Controlling Subprocesses.

Built-in variable: EXEC_PATH. Command-line argument: --exec-path.

OCTAVE_PATH
See Function Files.

Internal variable changed by function path. Command-line argument: --path.

OCTAVE_INFO_FILE
See Getting Help.

Internal variable changed by function info_file. Command-line argument: --info-file.

OCTAVE_INFO_PROGRAM
See Getting Help.

Internal variable changed by function info_program. Command-line argument: --info-program.

OCTAVE_HISTSIZE
See Commands For History.

Built-in variable: history_size.

OCTAVE_HISTFILE
See Commands For History.

Built-in variable: history_file.