Re: Tips: you must run close when using Octave in Emacs under MS-Windows

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- chriszheng99
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I use Octave in Emacs under MS Windows. With recent versions of Octave
> (e.g. octave-4.2.2-w64.zip), all the plot commands do not work. That
> is to say, if I run “plot(1:10)”, nothing happened and octave showed
> me the prompt again. I struggled with this issue for some
> time. Finally, I find the solution:
> 
> You must run “close” or “close all” before any plot commands.
> 
> When I was frustrated with the problem I searched the Internet and see
> no clear answer. So I post my solution here in case it might be
> helpful for Octave and Emacs users.
> 
> More details:
> 
> OS: MS Windows 8.1
> 
> Emacs version: 27.0.50 of 2018-03-26, the master branch
> 
> Configuration for Octave in Emacs:
> (setq inferior-octave-program "C:/octave/bin/octave-gui.exe")
> and put "C:\\octave\\bin;" before the old PATH.
> 
> Using empty .octaverc is useless. Adding “close” or “close all” to
> .octaverc is useless.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Chris

Octave team do not support octave+emacs and I  do not know persons appearing 
frequently on this list who are using octave + emacs.

please wait without expecting any support.


Tatsuro