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| author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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| date | Fri, 22 May 2009 10:46:00 -0400 |
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| 9245 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Ben Abbott |
| 7388 | 2 ## |
| 3 ## This file is part of Octave. | |
| 4 ## | |
| 5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
| 6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
| 8 ## your option) any later version. | |
| 9 ## | |
| 10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
| 11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
| 13 ## General Public License for more details. | |
| 14 ## | |
| 15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see | |
| 17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
| 20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{val} =} pathdef () | |
| 21 ## Return the default path for Octave. | |
| 22 ## The path information is extracted from one of three sources. | |
| 23 ## In order of preference, those are; | |
| 24 ## | |
| 25 ## @enumerate | |
| 26 ## @item @file{~/.octaverc} | |
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27 ## @item @file{<octave-home>/@dots{}/<version>/m/startup/octaverc} |
| 7392 | 28 ## @item Octave's path prior to changes by any octaverc. |
| 7388 | 29 ## @end enumerate |
| 30 ## @seealso{path, addpath, rmpath, genpath, savepath, pathsep} | |
| 31 ## @end deftypefn | |
| 32 | |
| 33 function val = pathdef () | |
| 34 | |
| 7392 | 35 ## Locate the site octaverc file. |
| 7391 | 36 pathdir = octave_config_info ("localstartupfiledir"); |
| 7392 | 37 site_octaverc = fullfile (pathdir, "octaverc"); |
| 7388 | 38 |
| 7393 | 39 ## Locate the user ~\.octaverc file. |
| 7392 | 40 user_octaverc = fullfile ("~", ".octaverc"); |
| 7388 | 41 |
| 7391 | 42 ## Extract the specified paths from the site and user octaverc"s. |
| 7393 | 43 site_path = __extractpath__ (site_octaverc); |
| 7392 | 44 if (exist (user_octaverc, "file")) |
| 7393 | 45 user_path = __extractpath__ (user_octaverc); |
| 7388 | 46 else |
| 7393 | 47 user_path = ""; |
| 7388 | 48 endif |
| 49 | |
| 7392 | 50 ## A path definition in the user octaverc has precedence over the |
| 51 ## site. | |
| 52 | |
| 7393 | 53 if (! isempty (user_path)) |
| 54 val = user_path; | |
| 55 elseif (! isempty (site_path)) | |
| 56 val = site_path; | |
| 57 else | |
| 58 val = __pathorig__ (); | |
| 7388 | 59 endif |
| 60 | |
| 61 endfunction |