Octave & Emacs

[Andreas Yankopolus]

I've been unable to get Octave (*.m) files to automatically start  
octave-mode in Emacs under Ubuntu Hardy Heron. The system is already  
adding the cons for octave mode ("\\.m$" . octave-mode) to auto-mode- 
alist. The octave3.0-emacsen package is installed and emacs-mod.elc is  
present. Despite this, I have to manually set *.m buffers to octave- 
mode.

Any ideas on what I should check?

Also, any advice on getting Octave/Gnuplot to scale PDF plots (print  
("foo.pdf","-dpdf)) to fit a page would be appreciated. They're  
squished into the bottom-left corner by default.

Thanks,

Andreas