From: Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Octave Help Mode?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:42:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fu1pq1$1gr$1@registered.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.10364.1208244210.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
David Hansen schrieb:
> [Cc: to emacs-devel]
>
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:10:17 +0200 Christian Herenz wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with Ocatve Mode. C-x C-h (or M-x octave-help) does
>> not work. It seems that octave-hlp.el cannot find the entrys, so no
>> symbol can be described. However, the variable octave-help-files is
>> set to "octave". Maybe this is a bug in my distribution?
>> I use openSUSE 10.2, and I get no error message, but as stated above I
>> cannot get help on anything.
>
> It's working here but I use a developer version of emacs. Is C-h S
> working?
I am not at my computer at the moment, so I cannot test this. However, I
noted yesterday, when browsing the GNU Octave Info File lots of Nodes
which are shown in the index are actually not present. Is this right, or
does openSUSE ship a wrong info file. Sorry, this tends to be more an
octave question, but since I am using it inside Emacs, I ask here.
>
> To the emacs-devels:
>
> Is there any need for `ocatave-help' if `info-lookup-symbol' is doing
> the same (as far as I can see)?
Mh, maybe octave-help, if working properly should just search the octave
manual, so if there is an ambivalence between a octave 'symbol' and
something which is actually not octave, wrong results could be retrived.
>
>> At another system running Debian (Sarge) I get the error message
>> "Info-find-node: Info file octave does not exist", but on the bash
>> "info octave" shows the info file. However, it is not shown in M-x
>> info (info-mode) inside emacs?
>
> Maybe adjust INFO_PATH but that sounds like a Debilian bug.
>
Do you mean the shell-variable INFO_PATH, which I would export in my
.profile (or simialar), or do you mean something emacs-specific?
As stated above, just entering "info octave" in a normal terminal works
fine.
The thing is, I really want to work with octave, and I just think it is
good to look something up directly inside the environment I am doing my
octave stuff (i.e. emacs), however since I am fan of printed works I
ordered via my libary today the "GNU Octave Manual" by J.W. Eaton
(Network Theory Ltd.). Since it is not present in my home-libary I have
to wait a little bit (cause its inter-libary loan), but I will fill out
some forms today, that more "official" printed GNU Documentation will be
available in our libary soon. At present, there is actually none :(
Greets,
Christian
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-14 23:10 Octave Help Mode? Christian Herenz
2008-04-15 7:20 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.10364.1208244210.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 8:42 ` Christian Herenz [this message]
2008-04-15 10:00 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-15 13:04 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.10371.1208264912.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 14:32 ` Christian Herenz
2008-04-15 15:28 ` David Hansen
[not found] ` <mailman.10374.1208273905.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 16:35 ` Christian Herenz
2008-04-15 16:41 ` Richard G Riley
2008-04-15 18:34 ` David Hansen
2008-04-15 18:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-04-16 12:56 ` David Hansen
2008-04-15 18:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.10394.1208284679.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 21:40 ` Christian Herenz
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