Re: GUI vs. CLI

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Mar-2006, John Swensen wrote:

| I see the only reason as having its own lame embedded editor is for 
| breakpoints, hover-values when broken, dockable watch windows, call 
| stack, etc.  In fact, I think this functionality is enough to move it 
| out of the lame category and into the "worth your while" category.

I think I would still prefer to have the functionality available in
Emacs, and others would like to be able to use some vi varient, or
some other favorite editor.

In any case, I think some some improvements in the core of Octave will
be required to make any of these debugging features work.

jwe




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