Re: How to launch Octave with its GUI ?

[John Swensen]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 28/07/07, Steve Thompson <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > As I understand it, the core developers of Octave are not
> > interested in some GUI since they live in Emacs and when you
> > get good at Emacs your motivation to make some half-baked
> > text editor for m-files isn't really there.
> >     
>
> Weeeeellll.... that's not *exactly* true. Even some of us hardcore
> Emacs religious nuts think that Octave needs a GUI, or something like
> it. QtOctave looks like a really promising GUI, now that Octave
> Workshop is seemingly abandoned (and it was Windows-only, blah).
>
> As far as Octave shipping its own editor, that would be quite silly.
> All we really need is to integrate Octave well with other pieces of
> software like editors, debuggers, and visualisers. The great thing
> about free software is that every software project doesn't need to
> create every component from scratch; we can use what others have
> already created.
>
> Bug reports and feature requests welcome as always. :-)
>
> - Jordi G. H.
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As I have half-heartedly worked on a Octave IDE over the past year or
two, I have always wanted emacs as the editor also.  Since I am
currently using the GtkSourceView widget for my editor, then the GTK
Emacs bindings work marginally well.  However, with the release of a new
version of emacs in the last couple of months with native GTK widgets
and such, I believe someone is working on allowing a person to embed
emacs in another GTK application with some set of event callbacks.  So,
I am going to continue to have a GtkSourceView editor for those who
aren't familiar with emacs, but once I can embed emacs in my IDE, I will.

John Swensen