Re: Problems setting up Xemacs Octave-mode

[Terry Duell]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:14:16 +1000, John W. Eaton <address@hidden>  
wrote:


> The emacs subdirectory is in the Octave source distribution.  People
> who make binary packages may include it in a separate package, or not
> at all.  For example, Debian has a separate octave3.0-emacsen package
> that contains the Emacs Lisp files.

OK, thanks.

> Where did you find the octave-mod.el file if it was not part of your
> distributions files?

Well, that's a good question. I didn't keep a link to the site.
I think it was an individuals site.
> | (autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)
> | (setq auto-mode-alist
> |        (cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> |
> | to my '/home/terry/.xemacs/custom.el' file, but when I load a 'xxx.m'  
> file
> | into xemacs it doesn't understand the mode and issues the following
> | error...
> |
> | 'error in file mode specification: wrong number of arguments:
> | define-abbrev, 6'
> |
> | So, I obviously have some/all things wrong.
>
> There are some incompatibilities in the functions provided by GNU
> Emacs and XEmacs.  I guess octave-mod.el is expecting to be able to
> pass more arguments to define-abbrev than the XEmacs define-abbrev
> function accepts.  However, the octave-mod.el file that is currently
> part of Octave's source tree only calls define-abbrev with 4
> arguments.  So again, where did you get your copy of octave-mod.el?
> If it was from GNU Emacs, then I'm not surprised that it fails.

OK. No it wasn't from GNU Emacs.

> | If anyone is successfully running octave mode using Xemacs on Fedora 8,
> | please point me in the right direction.
>
> I don't know precisely what needs to be done to make it work with
> XEmacs.  The Octave mode files are included in GNU Emacs now, so if
> you use that, then you don't need to do anything special.  If you must
> use XEmacs, then perhaps an XEmacs user can provide some additional
> help.

OK. Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell