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Here is a summary of all of Octave's built-in variables along with
cross references to additional information and their default values. In
the following table octave-home stands for the root directory
where all of Octave is installed (the default is /usr/local,
version stands for the Octave version number (for example,
3.0.5) and arch stands for the type of system for which
Octave was compiled (for example, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
).
EDITOR
Default value: "emacs"
.
EXEC_PATH
Default value: ":$PATH"
.
OCTAVE_HOME
"/usr/local"
.
PAGER
Default value: "less", or "more"
.
PS1
Default value: "\s:\#> "
.
PS2
Default value: "> "
.
PS4
Default value: "+ "
.
beep_on_error
Default value: 0.
completion_append_char
Default value: " "
.
default_save_options
Default value: "ascii"
.
crash_dumps_octave_core
Default value: 1.
fixed_point_format
Default value: 0.
gnuplot_binary
Default value: "gnuplot"
.
history_file
Default value: "~/.octave_hist"
.
history_size
Default value: 1024.
ignore_function_time_stamp
Default value: "system"
.
max_recursion_depth
Default value: 256.
output_max_field_width
Default value: 10.
output_precision
Default value: 5.
page_screen_output
Default value: 1.
print_answer_id_name
Default value: 1.
print_empty_dimensions
Default value: 1.
return_last_computed_value
Default value: 0.
save_precision
Default value: 17.
saving_history
Default value: 1.
sighup_dumps_octave_core
Default value: 1.
sigterm_dumps_octave_core
Default value: 1.
silent_functions
Default value: 0.
split_long_rows
Default value: 1.
struct_levels_to_print
Default value: 2.
suppress_verbose_help_message
Default value: 1.