[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#416049: octave2.9-emacsen: help -i and doc not working

[Pascal A. Dupuis]

Package: octave2.9-emacsen
Severity: normal

Hello,

another problem with the info mode for the help. Since the use of 
terminfo instead of termcap, comint.el defines the terminal as 'dumb', 
it's a feature. The result is that 'help -i' and 'doc' can't display the 
info content, as the info programs does not run in such terminal.

Also, the content of octave-help-files is set to ("octave"), it should 
be set to ("octave2.9"), the following solve it in .emacs:
(defvar octave-help-files '("octave2.9")
  "List of info files with documentation for Octave.
   Our default is (\"octave2.9\").")
(autoload 'octave-help "octave-hlp" nil t)
(load "gnuserv-compat")
(load-library "gnuserv")
(gnuserv-start) 

To have this to work, 'gnuserv' is thus a dependency.

Furthermore, the info-emacs-info  and info-emacs-octave-help scripts are 
wrapper around gnudoit, and gnudoit is said to be deprecated, it has to 
be replaced by 'gnuclient -batch -eval ', could you please solve ?

TIA

Pascal Dupuis

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