From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb 5 04:18:25 2004 Subject: Re: XEmacs octave mode (font lock problem) From: Victor Munoz To: Dirk Eddelbuettel Cc: Help-Octave List , debian-user Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:11:40 +0900 > > Another bug report regarding XEmacs and the very latest octave2.1-emacsen > package was filed recently [1], and addressed with a small patch by JWE. > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229336 Reading the bug report, I noticed the reported refered to a question I posted to the debian-user list, so I'm glad somone else noticed the problem as well, and the bug was solved (so I should have filed the bug report myself then!). > could try the newer .el files from a current octave2.1-emacsen package -- as > this isn't binary code, it can't interfere with your stable system. But > you'd need to manually tweak the installation or simply overwrite the .el > files and then rebuild the .elc (see what the postinst does). I did so. Recompiled the .elc using the unstable version of octave-mod.el, put it in /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/octave, and it works. Thanks! Victor ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------