[Scilab-users] Accidentally displaying huge matrices

[Vincent COUVERT]

Hi all,

What would you think about a feature describe as follows?

We coud add a specific calling sequence for lines function (e.g 
lines(-1000)) that will switch automatically the display of Scilab to 
the "short" mode [1000x1000 constant] for a matrix (or hypermatrix) 
having a dimension greater that 1000.

Regards.

Le 27/05/2015 11:02, Serge Steer a écrit :
> Le 27/05/2015 10:46, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
>> Le 27/05/2015 10:06, Lamy Alain a écrit :
>>> Maybe define a second function  ?
>>>
>>> disp => displays in the "julia" way (for instance)
>>> disp_all =>  display all elements whatever the size (it's the user
>>> responsibility to limit the size to something reasonable)
>> I guess that Serge was wondering about the default display, when an
>> instruction is not followed by ";".
>> disp() is something else. When we use disp(), the output is
>> intentional and required. So there should not have any abstract with
>> disp().
>>
>> For the default output, i rather agree with Serge. But the limit
>> between a full display and an abstract should be tunable (in addition
>> to a switch to an non-wrapped mode).
>> For instance, a max number of lines set through lines() <0 could mean
>> that an abstract is preferred for taller output. If it is >0, the
>> pagging mode is preferred. And if it is 0, no limit would be set (as
>> it is presently).
>>
> Just take care that lines() does not rule olny the display of a
> variable, it also rules the display of all outputs generated by an
> intruction as in the following example:
>
> lines(10)
> for i=1:20,i,end
>
>
> Serge
>> Samuel
>>
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