Subject: Re: bug#21162: adapting octave-inf.el to Octave 4

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:47:33 -0400

Francesco Potortì wrote:

> The following patch does two things:
>
> 1) it removes the --no-line-editing option when calling the Octave
>    process, for reasons that I explained in my previous bug report about
>    octave-inf.el
>
> 2) it adds the --no-gui option when calling Octave if its version is
>    different from 3: this is needed because the last (and future,
>    probably) Octave versions launch a GUI by default

There is no file "octave-inf.el" in Emacs for some time,
and "inferior-octave-startup" has contained code to call "--no-gui" for
the past two years, so please review the situation in current Emacs
master and send a revised patch, if one is still needed. Thanks.