[Scilab-users] Accidentally displaying huge matrices

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Le Jeudi 21 Mai 2015 17:48 CEST, Tim Wescott <tim at wescottdesign.com> a écrit: 
 
> If you're working with something humongous and you do some operation
> that displays, it takes forever before your mistake is done displaying.
> 
> E.g., if x is 100000 elements long and you type
> 
> y = exp(x)
> 
> instead of 
> 
> y = exp(x);
> 
> So I have two questions:
> 
> First, is there a way to get it to stop?  ctrl-C does not do the job.
> 
> Second, if not, could someone file an enhancement request, or remind me
> how to do it?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> 
> Tim Wescott
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Me too!
If there is a way to interrupt the display of a huge variable, I'll be happy to know it.
If not, it's worth writting a feature request.
It's a common mistake to forget a ";" when doing some data processing/debugging on the fly and it's such a pain to wait forever for your "fat-fingering" to finish.
To misquote xkcd ( https://xkcd.com/303/ ):

<<The #1 scilab user excuse for legitimately slacking off: "my data is displaying".>>

Antoine