RE: m file cache

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-May-2006, Paul Billings wrote:

| 1) I especially like the ability to list shadowed functions.

I'm not doing anything with that yet, but the new data structure makes
it easy to do.

| 2) You mentioned checking timestamps "once per prompt": hopefully that's
| just after the <enter> is pressed rather than just before or after the
| prompt appears.  I can see arguments for both, but the latter could be
| confusing.

OK, that's a good point that I missed.  I now have the cache update
happening just after the command editing function returns an input
line.  That way, files added while Octave is waiting for input will be
found before the next command is executed.  What is the argument for
updating the cache before the prompt is printed?

I think the revised load-path code will be ready for some testing in a
day or so.  If it looks like it works, then I'll probably make a new
snapshot sometime in the next week or two.

jwe