Re: Integrating Quint into the Octave sources

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Apr-2011, Doug Stewart wrote:

| "This is one of the major features of Matlab which causes users to switch to
| Octave."
|  I have never heard this before, it always was the other way for my students.
| Just my 1 cent worth.

I also don't think it should cause trouble for users if they are able
to start Octave with a --no-gui option, or allow them to put some
equivalent function call in their ~/.octaverc file.  But once the GUI
is sufficiently usable, I see no reason to disable it by default.  And
it makes no sense to me that it should be a separate program.  We
don't have emacs-tty and emacs-gtk, we just have emacs and a -nw
switch to tell it to not start the GUI code.  I think Octave should
work the same way.

jwe