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: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <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: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:15:37 +0200

Francesco Potortì:
>> --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.

Glen Morris:
>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.

Hm.  Thanks, Glenn.  I see now that I had not checked that corner case.
I'll bring this up with Octave developers and look for a solution.
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