Re: History in Octave GUI

[jkr]

I installed 3.8.2 from a dmg I found via another thread.  It installed
gracefully under /usr/local/octave, alongside 3.8.0.  Meanwhile, before I
found that dmg, I built what I thought would be 3.8.2 using homebrew.  That
turned out to install 3.8.1, and in a different location (under
/usr/local/Cellar/octave).  Now I have 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 (3.8.2 having
replaced 3.8.0 as expected in the GUI launcher - the code is still where it
was).

3.8.1 seems to work fine, but it doesn't have a GUI (at least, not the way I
built it with homebrew). 

3.8.2 launches a GUI alright, and has command recall, but doesn't work
correctly.  plot() never plots.  It brings up gnuplot_qt (as does 3.8.1),
but then gnuplot_qt crashes.

I can live with 3.8.1, though as a migrant from Matlab, I'm pretty
thoroughly spoiled by its GUI.  I'd like 3.8.2 to work.  I suspect it is
calling the wrong graphics routine, as a consequence of the 3.8.1
installation somehow.  The instructions for 3.8.1 involved installing
XQuartz, which seems like the qt in gnuplot_qt may be referring to.

Since the installation processes for 3.8.1 and 3.8.2 resulted in separate
installations, and each has bits and dependencies all over the place, I
don't know how to disentangle them if this if interference between them is
the problem.

Clues appreciated.



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