Hi, I hope I'm writing at the correct place.
I'm running Emacs 24.3.1 on an Arch. I can M-x shell and run octave, or even octave -i --no-line-editing just fine. However M-x run-octave hangs indefinitely. After M-x toggle-debug-on-quit and C-g during the hang I get this backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
accept-process-output(#<process Inferior Octave>)
inferior-octave-send-list-and-digest(("more off;\n" "PS1 (\"\\\\s> \");\n" "source (\"~/.emacs-octave\");\n"))
inferior-octave-startup()
run-octave(nil)
... (rest deleted)
My .emacs-octave is empty, I didn't have it, but even before creating it I had the same error, only the last value of the list to digest was nil. I get an inferior octave buffer created which greets me with the standard stuff but I'm missing a prompt. Writing in it is possible but provides no feedback.
Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2)
of 2014-06-11 on var-lib-archbuild-staging-x86_64-jgc
Package: Emacs version 24.3.1
current state:
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(setq
octave-blink-matching-block t
octave-block-offset 2
octave-comment-char 35
octave-continuation-offset 4
octave-continuation-string "\\"
octave-send-echo-input t
octave-send-line-auto-forward t
octave-send-show-buffer t
)