inferior octave mode for emacs is unable to detect octave completion capabilities

inferior octave mode for emacs is unable to detect octave completion capabilities

[Anselm Helbig]

affected: octave-inf.el as shipped with octave-2.1.71

on line 232-233:

    (setq inferior-octave-complete-impossible 
          (not (string-match "5$" (car inferior-octave-output-list))))

should read

    (setq inferior-octave-complete-impossible 
          (not (string-match "5$" (cadr inferior-octave-output-list))))
                                     ^
because the car of inferior-octave-output-list is the command sent,
not the result which is to be tested, which is in the cdr. 

as a result there were problems when sending a region that contained
tabs from an octave file to the inferior octave. 

regards,

anselm helbig


Emacs  : GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (alphaev67-dec-osfp4.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2005-06-30 on helene.molgen.mpg.de
Package: Emacs version 22.0.50.1

current state:
==============
(setq
 octave-auto-indent nil
 octave-auto-newline nil
 octave-blink-matching-block t
 octave-block-offset 2
 octave-comment-char 35
 octave-continuation-offset 4
 octave-continuation-string "\\"
 octave-mode-startup-message t
 octave-send-echo-input t
 octave-send-line-auto-forward t
 octave-send-show-buffer t
 )

Re: inferior octave mode for emacs is unable to detect octave completion capabilities

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Anselm Helbig writes:

> affected: octave-inf.el as shipped with octave-2.1.71
> on line 232-233:

>     (setq inferior-octave-complete-impossible 
>           (not (string-match "5$" (car inferior-octave-output-list))))

> should read

>     (setq inferior-octave-complete-impossible 
>           (not (string-match "5$" (cadr inferior-octave-output-list))))
>                                      ^
> because the car of inferior-octave-output-list is the command sent,
> not the result which is to be tested, which is in the cdr. 

> as a result there were problems when sending a region that contained
> tabs from an octave file to the inferior octave.

Are you sure?  I seem to get

ELISP> (inferior-octave-send-list-and-digest
     (list "exist \"completion_matches\"\n"))
nil
ELISP> (car inferior-octave-output-list)
"ans = 5"
ELISP> (cadr inferior-octave-output-list)
nil

Best
-k