From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Jan 15 03:48:22 2005
Subject: Re: Octave emacs lisp gobbledy-gook
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:53:54 -0600

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> To begin using this mode for all `.m' files that you edit, add the
> following lines to your `.emacs' file:
>
>  (autoload 'octave-mode \"octave-mod\" nil t)
>  (setq auto-mode-alist
>        (cons '(\"\\\\.m$\" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>
> However, both of the those commands seemed to cause errors in emacs.  
> I could leave out the first line, and the Fedora setup already 
> declares "octave-mode".  However, the documentation should probably be 
> changed to something that works if it is present in .emacs.  (What 
> that would be, I have no idea.  You might look in the lisp file 
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/loaddefs.el.)


I included from the loaddefs.el file the syntax (without the 
long-long-long comment):

(autoload (quote octave-mode) "/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/octave-mod" "" 
t nil)

in my .init.el xemacs file.  So, apparently that works and I'm now a 
happy camper again.  (I just put the full path in for the file because I 
got tired of looking for answers.)

Dan