From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Feb  6 06:06:52 1997
Subject: Emacs inferior octave and help -i
From: "Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6nsson?= ISY/DTR" <cj at isy dot liu dot se>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:44:20 +0100


I just noticed that running octave from within emacs, i.e., issuing the
M-x run-octave from emacs gets octave running in its own buffer. This is =
quite =

nice. However, when trying to run info, say help -i help, one gets:

octave> help -i help
info: Terminal type "emacs" is not smart enough to run Info.
error: help: unable to find info!
error: evaluating index expression near line 8, column 1
octave> =


So that's not so nice. Is there anyone out there who has given this a tho=
ugt? =

Is the problem really related to ``Terminal type "emacs",'' or might it b=
e =

possible to get emacs to ``catch'' the help -i call, and ``throw'' it as =
its =

own info buffer within the running emacs session?


BTW, plotting works just as it does ``stand-alone.''


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Christian J=F6nsson                (MIME) E-mail:        cj at isy dot liu dot se
ISY/Link=F6ping University               Phone:        +46 13 28 26 53