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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,
2.1.x) and arch stands for the type of system for which
Octave was compiled (for example, i586-pc-linux-gnu).
DEFAULT_LOADPATH
Default value: ".:octave-home/lib/version".
EDITOR
Default value: "emacs".
EXEC_PATH
Default value: ":$PATH".
INFO_FILE
Default value: "octave-home/info/octave.info".
INFO_PROGRAM
Default value: "octave-home/libexec/octave/version/exec/arch/info".
LOADPATH
Default value: ":", which tells Octave to use the directories
specified by the built-in variable DEFAULT_LOADPATH.
OCTAVE_HOME
"/usr/local".
PAGER
Default value: "less", or "more".
PS1
Default value: "\s:\#> ".
PS2
Default value: "> ".
PS4
Default value: "+ ".
automatic_replot
Default value: 0.
beep_on_error
Default value: 0.
completion_append_char
Default value: " ".
default_save_format
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.
warn_assign_as_truth_value
Default value: 1.
warn_comma_in_global_decl
Default value: 1.
warn_divide_by_zero
Default value: 1.
warn_empty_list_elements
Default value: 0.
warn_fortran_indexing
Default value: 0.
warn_function_name_clash
Default value: 1.
warn_imag_to_real
Default value: 0.
warn_missing_semicolon
Default value: 0.
warn_neg_dim_as_zero
Default value: 0.
warn_num_to_str
Default value: 1.
warn_reload_forces_clear
Default value: 1.
warn_resize_on_range_error
Default value: 0.
warn_separator_insert
Default value: 0.
warn_single_quote_string
Default value: 0.
warn_str_to_num
Default value: 0.
warn_undefined_return_values
Default value: 0.
warn_variable_switch_label
Default value: 0.