Re: Octave Help Mode?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have a problem with Ocatve Mode. C-x C-h (or M-x octave-help) does
>> not work. It seems that octave-hlp.el cannot find the entrys, so no
>> symbol can be described. However, the variable octave-help-files is
>> set to "octave". Maybe this is a bug in my distribution?
>> I use openSUSE 10.2, and I get no error message, but as stated above I
>> cannot get help on anything.

> It's working here but I use a developer version of emacs.  Is C-h S
> working?

> To the emacs-devels:

> Is there any need for `octave-help' if `info-lookup-symbol' is doing
> the same (as far as I can see)?

I haven't looked at octave-help, but maybe it is indeed redundant.
Can someone check?


        Stefan