Re: data cut-and-paste on Octave commandline

[PhilipNienhuis]

Mike Miller-4 wrote
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 13:19:37 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
>> Often I'd like to process some tabular data from other apps (browser or
>> spreadsheet). It's easy enough to mark the entire table, but the multiple
>> numbers on each row often seem to be delimited by tabs. When this is
>> dropped
>> into Octave command line after the opening stanza of the form 'myvar=[' ,
>> the tabs are eaten by readline, and the individual numbers run together.
>> 
>> With spreadsheet, I usually can cut and paste individual columns
>> one-by-one,
>> but this doesn't work for tabular data from other sources.
>> 
>> Is there  a better way to feed data to Octave?
>> 
>> If not, is there a way to temporarily turn off/disable readline
>> processing?
> 
> Yes, you are looking for the readline option "enable-bracketed-paste".
> Add
> 
>     set enable-bracketed-paste on
> 
> to your ~/.inputrc and it should be taken care of automatically if you
> are using any common terminal emulator that supports this feature.
> 
> Unfortunately, the Octave GUI terminal does *not* currently support
> bracketed paste, so if you enable this option and use the GUI, you will
> see a bunch of error messages about unrecognized escape sequences.

That's one thing the Variable Editor was made for.
You need to first open some variable in the V.E. and select a cell but then
pasting data works perfectly.

Philip



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