GNU bug report logs - #21162
adapting octave-inf.el to Octave 4

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:23:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 21150, 21163

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stephen <at> gnu.org, Kurt.Hornik <at> wu-wien.ac.at, 21162 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "John W. Eaton" <jwe <at> degreesofgray.org>, Mike Miller <mtmiller <at> octave.org>
Subject: bug#21162: adapting octave-inf.el to Octave 4
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:39:10 -0400

Francesco Potortì wrote:

> --no-line-editing serves no apparent purpose (any more?) and prevents an
> inferior Octave process from using readline features, like getting the
> terminal width and other functions used for the FLTK graphical backend.

vc-annotate is your friend, and shows that this was added in:

commit 48495f0fd6afc6aa45f87116552629df39268336
Author: Stephen Eglen <stephen <at> gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Sep 6 19:20:29 1999 +0000

    add --no-line-editing to inferior-octave-startup-args so that TABs
    in source files are not interpreted as completion requests.

I don't use Octave myself, so I have no idea if this is still relevant.
If you know it isn't, I suggest you feel free to commit this.
Please bump the defcustom's :version tag (to 25.1) if you do,
and then close this bug. Thanks!
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 43 days ago.

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