lines

Arguments

nl

An integer, the number of lines for vertical paging control.

• If 0: no vertical paging control is done.

• If -1: reset vertical paging control to current size of the window.

nc

An integer, the number of column of output. Used for formatting output

ncl

A 1x2 vector [nc, nl]

Description

lines handles Scilab display paging.

lines() returns the vector [# columns, # rows] currently used by Scilab for displaying the results.

lines(nl) sets the number of displayed lines (before user is asked for more) to nl.

lines(0) disables vertical paging.

lines(nl,nc) and lines([nc,nl]) changes also the size of the output to nc columns.

When Scilab is launched without -nw option, the lines parameters are automatically set according to the output window size, these parameters are also automatically modified when the window is resized.

See Also

• disp — displays variables
• print — prints variables in a file

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