[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51349] debug mode from a program has readline disabled

[Rik]

Update of bug #51349 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Confirmed.  There is an easy enough workaround which is to start an
interactive session of Octave and then run the script file to be debugged from
the Command Window (GUI) or command line (CLI).

The issue is that when running a script directly from the shell command line
Octave believes it is being called in non-interactive batch mode.  This would
be common if you were running an already debugged script to analyze a new
dataset.  If Octave is running non-interactively, it believes it doesn't need
line-editing capabilities supplied by Readline.  Hence the behavior you are
seeing.

Another workaround would be to use the command-line option "--line-editing"
which will force Octave to include Readline behavior.

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