Dan Davison <dandavis...@gmail.com> writes: > Eric S Fraga <ucec...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Just a comment on requirements: ob-octave assumes the presence of the >> =dlmwrite= function. This is available as standard with octave 3.2 but >> requires an extra package (=octave-io=) if you have an older version >> (3.0.x). All of this is for Debian systems; I cannot speak about others >> of course. > > Hi Eric, > > Thanks. When dlmwrite is missing, is a helpful error message given? > (When not using a session, if an error message is written to stdout, > then it should pop up in a dedicated babel error message buffer).
yes, an error message is generated which is basically helpful enough. However, it took a while for me to realise that the error was referring to the octave code generated by babel to generate the output file (i.e. the message refers to line 2 and I had no line 2 in my octave code as it consisted of one expression). > If the error message is not helpful, do you think we should > programatically test for the function in octave code and display our > own error message when it is absent? I think this would be a good idea. However, given that dlmwrite is available by default in octave 3.2, the /stable/ version and one which will be the default in Debian stable soon, it may simply be a case of extending the babel documentation to highlight this. > If you have time to add relevant notes to > Worg:org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-octave-matlab.org > that would be much appreciated. > > Dan I'll put it on my todo list... don't have much time at the moment but hopefully next week I will. -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
