Re: Octave in Universities

[Gorazd Brumen]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me if there is any good documentation on octave
debugger? In John's book only commands are described. Where are
next and step commands (functionality as in gdb)?.




Btw, I also think that graphical debugging is way easier than
command-line one. And the gui issue pops up again.


Regards,
Gorazd

David Bateman wrote:
> Matt Taylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>>On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
>>>
>>>| -  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to
>>>avoid it as | much as possible)
>>>
>>>In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
>>>even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
>>>anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
>>>least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
>>>the GUI window.  So, when people are saying that they can't live
>>>without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
>>>few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
>>>familiar "Edit" button).  Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.
>>>
>>>jwe
>>>  
>>
>>
>>
>>I have been using Octave almost exclusively.  But when I really get
>>stuck, trying to debug some complex code, I use Matlab's graphical
>>debugging mode to find my problem.  It is very convenient to be able
>>to step through the code and evaluate individual expressions/check
>>variable values.
>>
>>Matt
>>
> 
> Octave has an inbuilt debugger. Check the keyboard command and the
> debug_on_error variable.
> 
> D.
> 
> 

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