From help-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 16 00:49:03 2006
Subject: Re: GUI vs. CLI
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: John Swensen <jpswensen at comcast dot net>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:48:39 -0500

On 15-Mar-2006, John Swensen wrote:

| I see the only reason as having its own lame embedded editor is for 
| breakpoints, hover-values when broken, dockable watch windows, call 
| stack, etc.  In fact, I think this functionality is enough to move it 
| out of the lame category and into the "worth your while" category.

I think I would still prefer to have the functionality available in
Emacs, and others would like to be able to use some vi varient, or
some other favorite editor.

In any case, I think some some improvements in the core of Octave will
be required to make any of these debugging features work.

jwe




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