[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57463] History should be stored at platform specific location

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #57463 (project octave):

                Severity:               2 - Minor => 1 - Wish               
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Fortunately, this can already be configured by the user, see `help
history_file`.

If we want to change the defaults to conform with OS expectations, a couple of
questions for consideration.

* Would the history file be considered more like a "cache" file, or more like
a "data" file?

* Would Windows users want to have Octave history saved in the per-machine
profile directory or in the roaming profile directory? Would it be more useful
to have a shared history between multiple machines by default or to have a
unique history per machine?

My preference would be for "data", and I think shared history in the roaming
profile probably makes sense. So on GNU, macOS, and other Unix-likes, the
history file would be something like ${XDG_DATA_HOME}/octave/history, or
~/.local/share/octave/history if XDG_DATA_HOME is not defined. On Windows, the
history file would be something like %APPDATA%\octave\history.

My ~/.octaverc already redefines the history_file to be
~/.local/share/octave/history, I've been using that for a while.

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