Re: using GUD mode to control interactive environment (like octave)

[Francesco Potorti`]

>I have created (with very little effort) an octave mode that can
>simply allow the user to run octave from within emacs but will also
>(automatically) begin behaving as other GUD modes when debugging.
>
>My question is, is there something fundamentally wrong with extending
>GUD in this way for this purpose?  Is there some pitfall I have
>missed?

As far as I know (not very much), not, but I am sure it would be very
useful!

>If not, why go through the effort of creating seperate octave and
>matlab modes?

As far as I know, unifying them would save much effort.