Bug#293235: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#293235: octave2.1-emacsen: hangs Emacs

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 February 2005 at 16:29, Rafa Rodriguez Galvan wrote:
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| El mar, 01-02-2005 a las 23:06, Francesco Potorti` escribi=F3:
| > Package: octave2.1-emacsen
| > Version: 2.1.64-1
| > Severity: important
| >=20
| > Simply does not work.  When I call M-x run-octave RET, Emacs just
| > hangs.  This has happened since I upgraded to the current version.
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| Strange... I have compiled and tested the last version (2.1.64-3)
| and have no problem in Emacs with M-x run-octave. I'm using emacs21=20=

| 21.3+1-7, debianutils 2.8.4, kernel 2.6.5-mppe - i686.

On Debian testing with the usual emacs and xemacs packages (see below),=
 M-x
run-octave also works as expected.

Francesco, we'd need more detail to help you here.

Dirk

edd@basebud:~> dpkg -l|grep "octave\|emacs"
ii  emacs21        21.3+1-8       The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs21-bin-co 21.3+1-8       The GNU Emacs editor's shared, archit=
ecture
ii  emacs21-common 21.3+1-8       The GNU Emacs editor's shared, archit=
ecture
ii  emacsen-common 1.4.16         Common facilities for all emacsen
ii  octave-epstk   2.0-6          GNU Octave encapsulated postscript to=
olkit
ii  octave2.0      2.0.17-8       The GNU Octave language for numerical=
 comput
ii  octave2.1      2.1.64-1       The GNU Octave language for numerical=
 comput
ii  octave2.1-emac 2.1.64-1       Emacs support for the GNU Octave lang=
uage (2
ii  octave2.1-head 2.1.64-1       Header files for the GNU Octave langu=
age (2.
ii  octave2.1-info 2.1.64-1       GNU Info documentation on the GNU Oct=
ave lan
ii  xemacs21       21.4.16-1      Editor and kitchen sink
ii  xemacs21-bases 2004.08.18-2   Editor and kitchen sink -- compiled e=
lisp su
ii  xemacs21-bin   21.4.16-1      Editor and kitchen sink -- support bi=
naries
ii  xemacs21-gnome 21.4.16-1      Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule b=
inary
ii  xemacs21-mule  21.4.16-1      Editor and kitchen sink -- Mule binar=
y
ii  xemacs21-mules 2004.08.18-2   Editor and kitchen sink -- Mule elisp=
 suppor
ii  xemacs21-suppo 21.4.16-1      Editor and kitchen sink -- architectu=
re inde

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