From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Jan 14 19:26:10 2005 Subject: Re: Bug#290470: octave2.1: Octave's bug_report needs emacs or $EDITOR From: Dirk Eddelbuettel To: bug at octave dot org Cc: Thomas Weber , 290470-forwarded@bugs.debian.org Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:29:21 -0600 Thomas, On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:15:28AM +0100, Thomas Weber wrote: > Package: octave2.1 > Version: 2.1.64-1 > Severity: minor > > > octave:3> bug_report > Please enter a one-line description of your bug report. > > Subject: cross.m doesn't work when warn_resize_on_range_error = 1 > warning: in fopen near line 46, column 11: > warning: fopen: default open mode is now binary > /usr/bin/octave-bug-2.1.64: line 226: emacs: command not found > problems with edit -- no bug report submitted > saving message in /home/thomas/dead-octave-bug-1 > > > I don't have $EDITOR defined and the only emacs package installed is > emacsen-common - any chance of using /etc/alternatives/editor for this? Hm but that would make it debian-specific whereas it is otherwise generic. Will forward to jwe and the octave bug list though. Thanks for the bug report, Dirk > Regards > Thomas > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.3 > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Versions of packages octave2.1 depends on: > ii atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-19 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra > ii fftw3 3.0.1-11 Library for computing Fast Fourier > ii lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-5 library of linear algebra routines > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an > ii libg2c0 1:3.3.5-6 Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77 > ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-7 GCC support library > ii libhdf5-serial-1.6.2-0 [ 1.6.2-3 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) > ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand > ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries > ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > ii refblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2-6 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 > ii texinfo 4.7-2.2 Documentation system for on-line i > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime > > -- no debconf information -- Better to have an approximate answer to the right question than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- John Tukey as quoted by John Chambers ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------