[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39870] Crash when trying to "save file and run" in editor

[Philip Nienhuis]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39870>

                 Summary: Crash when trying to "save file and  run" in editor
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: philipnienhuis
            Submitted on: Mon 26 Aug 2013 05:03:06 PM CEST
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Philip Nienhuis
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

(Octave 3.7.6+, MXE build <17330:219552139c18 tip @>, Win7 64 bit)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load an m-file or script from any subdir outside the load path into the
editor, e.g., through "Recent Editor Files" menu.

2. Next, click the blue triangle button "Save file and Run". A half-baked
"Change Directory or Add Directory to Load Path" dialog pops up and from then
on Octave hangs for ever.
Only way out is the close button, which leads to a "crash" (actually, Windows
will terminate Octave the hard way).

The message is clear (first add subdir-to-save-in to load path); but Octave
shouldn't hang or crash.

BTW Matlab (r2012a) offers to either change to the subdir in question, or to
add it to the load path.
Even better would be if Octave would already emit a suitable warning at the
moment that the file is to be read into the editor.





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