Question

I m trying to run Octave from within emacs (I m mostly a beginner at both but have the hang of emacs shortcuts now). When I try run-octave as suggested here, I get the message.

Searching for file, no such file or directory, octave

Disclaimer: I m using Windows Vista. Octave is in c:Octave... the emacs default directory is c:usersusername

and I added this to the _emacs file:

(autoload octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)

    (setq auto-mode-alist
            (cons  ("\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))

(autoload run-octave "octave-inf" nil t)

Any tips on how to tell emacs where octave is?

Thank you for your help in advance, Massagran

Answer 1

You need to make sure the octave binary, probably under "C:Octavein", is in the search path.

To check this, right click your "Computer" icon on the Desktop or the Start Menu, right-click, select "Properties" and then select "Advanced System Settings". Click the "Environments variables" button and look for PATH. If you can t find the octave directory mentioned in this variable append ";C:Octavein".

For more information on how to set the PATH variable check for example here.

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