Re: New development for emacs's octave-mode

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-05-05 18:05 +0800, c. wrote:
> BTW, I am running Octave 3.7.3+ and a nightly build of Emacs.app I
> noticed that
>
> M-x run-octave
>
> will run Octave in GUI mode, then Emacs will freeze and I won't be
> able to get it back even after killing Octave.
>
> Of course adding "--no-gui" to the startup arguments of Octave
> inferior mode fixes this, but I wonder why Emacs freezes without it,
> and whether there is a way to avoid it.
>
> Do you think "--no-gui" should be in the startup arguments list by
> default?

It looks bad if Emacs hangs. --no-gui is a new switch. This is likely an
octave oddity and would be best fixed if we understand the cause.

Leo