Re: distributing Octave in August

[poti]

On 16:54 Fri 15 Jun     , John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 15-Jun-2007, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> OK, since -i and --interactive mean the same thing, I would expect
> this to work properly.  I see:
> 
>   octave> argv
>   ans =
> 
>   {
>     [1,1] = -i
>     [2,1] = --no-line-editing
>   }
> 
> after running M-x run-octave in Emacs (not Windows though) so it seems
> to be passing the arguments correctly.  What happens for you?  
Emacs freezes after M-x run-octave when it gets (apparently) just past 
inferior-octave.

> If you are not getting a prompt, does the following work for you?
> 
>   5) Added the following line to my .octaverc:
> 
>   PS1(">> ");
> 
This works. Once I am in octave with the >> prompt, argv gives exactly
the output you posted, quoted above. 


> 
> If not, I think you will have to debug why this is not
> happening.  I don't use Windows and I don't have time to do it at the
> moment anyway.

I tried (debug-on-entry inferior-octave), but I guess there is something 
I do not quite understand about when a form can be debugged since I get 
(void-variable inferior-octave) even when I have the octave session
sitting in the other buffer. I am sorry for asking simple questions, but
I am starting to run short on time on several commitments so appreciate
pointers I would otherwise have dug up the right way myself.