Hello,
This is really strange. On my debian/sid, 2.6.22 amd64 kernel, octave
2.9.13,
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$ octave
GNU Octave, version 2.9.13
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octave:1> edit
error: `edit' undefined near line 1 column 1
octave:1> help edit
help: `edit' not found