9.5 Defaults from the Environment

Octave uses the values of the following environment variables to set the default values for the corresponding built-in 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.

Built-in variable: LOADPATH. Command-line argument: --path.

OCTAVE_INFO_FILE

See Getting Help.

Built-in variable: INFO_FILE. Command-line argument: --info-file.

OCTAVE_INFO_PROGRAM

See Getting Help.

Built-in variable: 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.