From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Nov  7 15:58:21 1995
Subject: octave-mode.el for emacs
From: Heber Farnsworth <heberf at u dot washington dot edu>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:58:24 -0800 (PST)

This may be a dumb question.  I loaded octave-mode.el in my site.lisp directory
right where matlab-mode.el is.  I put the lines

   (autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mode" "Enter Octave mode." t)
   (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
   (defun my-octave-mode-hook ()
    (setq fill-column 76)
     (turn-on-auto-fill))
   (setq octave-mode-hook 'my-octave-mode-hook)

in my .emacs file but when I try to enter octave mode (either with M-x or by
finding a dot-m file) I get the message "Autoloading failed to define function
octave-mode".  I can get into matlab mode just fine with lines very similar to
the above except with octave replaced by matlab.

I'm running emacs 19.29 on a DECstation with Ultrix 4.4 if that matters.


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