Re: Emacs and Octave

[Tiago Charters de Azevedo]

Well,... take a look at this: http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060302.html

The answer to the question:  "Is emacs worth putting a lot of time into?" Is YES.

One text editor that deserves a try is scite: http://www.scintilla.org

Take a look.

Best wishes,

tca

On 7/13/07, mccoct <address@hidden> wrote:

OK, so it seems that emacs is a lot more complicated than I expected. So what
do most octave users use for editing files? Is emacs worth putting a lot of
time into?



mccoct wrote:
>
> Can someone explain some very basics of emacs to me? I have used matlab
> for years and would like to set up octave and emacs in a similiar way but
> emacs makes no sense to me at all.
>
> What is a buffer?
>
> I am able to open a window named *Inferior Octave* but how do I run a
> octave command?
>
> The octave tutorial says that "C-c i l" will send the current line to the
> inferior Octave process but I get a response "C-c TAB is undefined". How
> can I actually execute a octave function?
>
> Any information would be helpful.
>
>
>
>
>
>

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