Re: Octave Help Mode?

[David Hansen]

[Cc: to emacs-devel]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:10:17 +0200 Christian Herenz wrote:

> 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 `ocatave-help' if `info-lookup-symbol' is doing
the same (as far as I can see)?

> At another system running Debian (Sarge) I get the error message
> "Info-find-node: Info file octave does not exist", but on the bash
> "info octave" shows the info file. However, it is not shown in M-x
> info (info-mode) inside emacs?

Maybe adjust INFO_PATH but that sounds like a Debilian bug.

David