From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Herenz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Octave Help Mode? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:42:41 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208252564 23313 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2008 09:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:42:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 15 11:43:16 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jlhgl-0004By-P5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jlhg7-00050N-3J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:42:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1830jyoneOgL81xoknIMFAC+5VvHpcHQvFJFZbqQ7uv71PWZsctoR5/shwMHUBX2hwxblOppnDcsfSTj8/icFwT5ID6ZWS/Pb7vnKFKlDEkwSSJuBkI+41UkA3NUKH70uo= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:42:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX193ziOER88X5yzJaqX/nO1Gxzcf8vVXnNk= Cancel-Lock: sha1:/gQfwK9BUfrq6DcbJp2Kilxj/dg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de-AT; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157937 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53302 Archived-At: 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