Re: Octave mode in Emacs

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-05-18 05:10 +0800, Matthew Reich wrote:
> A few questions about Octave mode in emacs
>
> 1.  Does XEmacs support Octave mode?
>
> 2. Attempting to enable Octave mode, I added the code listed in section H.1of 
> the GNU Octave manual to ~/.emacs.  That causes the following error message 
> on Emacs startup:
>     Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading 
> `/home/REICHM/.emacs'\:
>     Symbol's value as variable is void: ’octave-mode
>
> The following files are present:
>    /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/progmodes/octave-inf.elc
>    /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/progmodes/octave-mod.elc
>
> How should the file locations and ~/.emacs be changed?
>
> 3. Where can I get octave-hlp.el (.elc)?
>
> 4. Emacs has (at least) one odd behavior; the Backspace key acts like C-h.  
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you,
> M.Reich

The octave package included in emacs 22.x may work in xemacs. It also
has the octave-hlp.el file. Grab the source tarball from emacs's gnu
website. The octave package in emacs 23.x may also work.

GNU Emacs is advancing at a lighting speed. As such very few people in
the community care about XEmacs compatibility. i.e. you are very likely
to find incompatibility.

HTH,
Leo