[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#416048: octave2.9-emacsen: interface change in pwd => error message in octave-mod

[Rafael Laboissiere]

package octave2.9-emacsen
tags 416048 confirmed pending
thanks

* Pascal A. Dupuis <Pascal.Dupuis at worldonline.be> [2007-03-24 12:05]:

> Package: octave2.9-emacsen
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I introduced in 2005 the following patch to octave-mod:
> --- octave-inf.el.orig  2005-08-22 11:34:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ octave-inf.el       2005-08-22 11:38:05.000000000 +0200
> @@ -234,7 +234,10 @@
>  
>      ;; And finally, everything is back to normal.
>      (set-process-filter proc 'inferior-octave-output-filter)
> -    (run-hooks 'inferior-octave-startup-hook)))
> +    (run-hooks 'inferior-octave-startup-hook)
> +    ;; just in case, to be sure a cd in the startup file 
> +    ;; won't have detrimental effects
> +    (inferior-octave-resync-dirs)))
>  
>  ^L
>  (defun inferior-octave-complete ()
> 
> 
> The purpose is to made the idea of inferior-octave process and emacs 
> buffer about dirs the same in case the initialisation file '.octaverc' 
> contains a 'cd' command. 
> 
> It started failing some times ago about unknown "CDPATH". The reason is 
> that pwd now returns 'ans = /home/user', and cding to 'ans = /home/user' 
> is not possible. The workaround is to use disp(pwd) instead:
> --- octave-inf.el.orig  2007-03-23 17:16:19.000000000 +0100
> +++ octave-inf.el       2007-03-23 17:16:35.000000000 +0100
> @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
>  This command queries the inferior Octave process about its current
>  directory and makes this the current buffer's default directory."
>    (interactive)
> -  (inferior-octave-send-list-and-digest '("pwd\n"))
> +  (inferior-octave-send-list-and-digest '("disp(pwd)\n"))
>    (cd (car inferior-octave-output-list)))

Thanks for the bug report and the patch.  This problem is already fixed
upstream [1] and appears in verison 2.9.10 released today.  I already
started packaging this version for Debian, which will hopefully be uploaded
soon to unstable.

[1] http://velveeta.che.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/octave/emacs/octave-inf.el.diff?r1=1.16;r2=1.17

-- 
Rafael