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

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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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* Pascal A. Dupuis <Pascal.Dupuis@worldonline.be> [2007-03-24 12:13]:

> Package: octave2.9-emacsen
> Severity: normal
> 
> 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.

I do not consider this to be a bug.  When running inferior-octave, I have:

    octave> help -i
    info: Terminal type `emacs' is not smart enough to run Info.

This is the normal behavior and is well documented.  Besides, accessing the
info from inferior-octave is as simple as typing "M-x info" :-)

I am hereby closing this bug report.  Feel free to reopen it if you come
with a concrete suggestion on how we could change the pacakge to address the
issue.

-- 
Rafael

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