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

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> To: Chris Zheng ; "help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2018/4/19, Thu 06:08
> Subject: Re: Tips: you must run close when using Octave in Emacs under 
> MS-Windows
> 
> --- 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


Before starting octave for windows you should prepare environmental setting.
Please see octave.vbs and consider what you should do.

Tatsuro