Emacs inferior octave and help -i

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Feb-1997, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

| 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 thougt?

If you are running X, here's one solution:

  INFO_PROGRAM = sprintf ("xterm -e %s", INFO_PROGRAM)

If you want to use the GNU Emacs info reader instead, you might want
to look at the info-emacs-info and info-emacs-octave-help scripts from
Octave's examples directory.

jwe