Andrew Janke

I don't think there's much I can do here, due to how Octave's OOP works. What you're looking at there is the display of Octave's `cell` type (what you get...

(BTW, unless you're mixing `string` arrays with other types of arrays, or you need arrays-of-mixed-size-arrays-of-strings or similar structures, you don't need to put `string` values inside cell arrays like you...

Oh huh; I didn't even know that non-classdef classes behaved differently for this. FWIW, I think their behavior that you're showing in your last comment here seems like the correct...

Moving the milestone for this to The Future, because I don't think there's much I can do here due to core Octave behavior, and this isn't an urgent issue that...

There was some discussion of this on the Octave Maintainers mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2019-10/msg00071.html. Looks like there's an appetite for readtable/writetable. I'm bumping up the priority on this to High.

> Would the io package (https://octave.sourceforge.io/io/index.html) help provide some intermediate functions for readtable? Yes and no. ;) In theory and in a broad sense, yes, the `io` package should provide...

> I think ultimately all of this belongs in base Octave, since they are core Matlab features I agree. My ultimate goal is to contribute the entirety of Tablicious up...

> It probably worth to retry Octave 6.2.0 nowadays You are correct! The Octave 6.x release fixed the GUI problems we were having on macOS, so this is no longer...

Your suspicion sounds correct to me. This is probably something that needs to be fixed with some quoting in the commands run by the installation process. I'm not sure if...

Dropping this to Low Priority, since I think user names with a space in them are pretty uncommon. Need to get more core functionality and doco stuff out first.