Re: enabling immediate output behavior

[Aditya Bhagwat]

Dear Francesco,

Thanks for your involvement.
> > Thanks for your help. Even while using disp(a) as you suggested, in the 
> > Emacs editor's inferior octave process, all output is kept till the last 
> > function evaluation has been performed, and only then sent to the 
> > screen.
> >     
>
> Hm.  I run octave as an Emacs inferior process, though in a different
> op.sys. (Debian).  If I run this:
>
> octave> for i=1:50000 i=i+1; if (mod(i,10000)==0) disp(i); endif; endfor
>
> I get this:
>
>  10000
>  20000
>  30000
>  40000
>  50000
> octave> 
>
> where the lines are printed at intervals of about one second's time.
> Would you try my example above and let us know what happens?
>   

In my case, for a couple of seconds, nothing happens. Then, the lines 
are printed all at once in the inferior octave window. I am working on 
emacs 23.1, which I compiled on Ubuntu 9.04.

Regards,

Aditya