Re: How to launch Octave with its GUI ?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 28/07/07, Steve Thompson <address@hidden> wrote:
> As I understand it, the core developers of Octave are not
> interested in some GUI since they live in Emacs and when you
> get good at Emacs your motivation to make some half-baked
> text editor for m-files isn't really there.

Weeeeellll.... that's not *exactly* true. Even some of us hardcore
Emacs religious nuts think that Octave needs a GUI, or something like
it. QtOctave looks like a really promising GUI, now that Octave
Workshop is seemingly abandoned (and it was Windows-only, blah).

As far as Octave shipping its own editor, that would be quite silly.
All we really need is to integrate Octave well with other pieces of
software like editors, debuggers, and visualisers. The great thing
about free software is that every software project doesn't need to
create every component from scratch; we can use what others have
already created.

Bug reports and feature requests welcome as always. :-)

- Jordi G. H.