[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #65511] Cannot edit or execute graphics m-file

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #65511 (group octave):

When you say "double click to open an existing .m file", do you mean you are
double clicking an icon on the desktop or inside Octave?  If inside Octave, I
don't understand exactly what you are doing.  If you are selecting an icon on
the desktop or in a filesystem browser that is part of MacOS, then I'm not
sure why your system has Emacs configured as the program to open .m files.

If Octave's built-in editor doesn't work (you say the editor window doesn't
look right) then I'm guessing your copy of Octave wasn't built with support
for the editor.  That's not a bug in Octave, that's a problem with packaging. 
You can confirm that by executing the following commands in the Octave command
window:


__octave_config_info__ ("QSCINTILLA")
__octave_config_info__ ("QT_LIBS")


If the libraries necessary to provide the editor functionality were available
when Octave was compiled, the first command will return 1 and the output from
the second should include some form of "-lqscintilla" (probably with a version
suffix).

If that's not the case, you need to ask the homebrew folks about this problem.


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