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describe changed global shortcut preference in NEWS
* NEWS: describes in GUI section the changed default state of "Disable
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1 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 7 (yyyy-mm-dd): |
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4 ### General improvements |
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6 - Many functions in Octave can be called in a command form---no |
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10 **Command Form Example** |
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14 **Function Form Example** |
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18 Octave now handles errors that occur in a consistent manner. If |
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20 and a message printed. If called in functional form, no error or |
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26 * `copyfile` |
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27 * `fcntl` |
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28 * `fileattrib` |
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29 * `kill` |
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30 * `link` |
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224 `flintmax`. |
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232 quantile values. The dimension input now allows a vector, "all", and |
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247 scatter graphics object. For compatibility, they return an `hggroup` of |
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248 patch graphics objects when the `"gnuplot"` graphics toolkit is used. In |
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249 previous versions of Octave, these functions returned an `hggroup` of |
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250 patch graphics objects for all graphics toolkits. |
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253 in a Matlab-compatible manner. Negative values now stack below the zero |
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254 axis independently of a positive value bars in the same stack. |
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255 Previously the negative bars could overlap positive bars depending on |
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256 drawing order. |
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259 axes property rather than the `"Colormap"` figure property unless one |
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260 of the histogram options (@qcode{"hist"}, @qcode{"histc"} was specified. |
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263 (.ofig) rather than PDF (.pdf). |
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265 - A new warning ID (`"Octave:unimplemented-matlab-functionality"`) has |
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267 Matlab code, but for which Octave does not yet implement the |
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268 functionality. By default, this warning is enabled. |
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270 - When Octave is started with the `--traditional` option for maximum |
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271 compatibility the `print_struct_array_contents` internal variable is set |
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272 to true. |
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275 a scalar. |
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277 - The functions `var` and `std` now accept a weight vector as input and |
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278 compute the weigthed variance. Dimension input now allows a vector and |
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279 the keyword "all". |
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281 ### Alphabetical list of new functions added in Octave 7 |
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283 * `cospi` |
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284 * `getpixelposition` |
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285 * `endsWith` |
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286 * `fill3` |
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287 * `jsondecode` |
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288 * `jsonencode` |
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289 * `jupyter_notebook` |
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290 * `listfonts` |
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291 * `matlab.net.base64decode` |
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292 * `matlab.net.base64encode` |
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293 * `memory` |
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295 * `rng` |
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296 * `sinpi` |
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297 * `startsWith` |
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298 * `streamribbon` |
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299 * `turbo` |
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311 - Functions |
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328 ** | ^ | Matrix exponent |
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329 .** | .^ | Element-by-element exponent |
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389 script to disable it by default, people still ask questions about how to |
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391 because they think it will make Octave code run faster (it never did, |
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393 demonstration purposes only). The following functions related to the |
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