spacemacs/layers/+lang/octave/README.org

Octave layer

• Description
  • Features:
• Install
• Key bindings
  • Inferior REPL process
  • Helpers

Description

This layer adds support for GNU Octave files to Spacemacs.

Features:

• Syntax highlighting for .m files via octave-mode.
• REPL support
• Support for directly running Octave scripts from Emacs.
• Integration with Octaves documentation search function.

Install

Make sure that GNU Octave is installed and in your PATH. For information about setting up $PATH, check out the corresponding section in the FAQ (=SPC h SPC $PATH RET=).

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add octave to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Key bindings

Inferior REPL process

Send code to inferior process with these commands:

Key	Description
SPC m '	start/switch to REPL inferior process
SPC m s i
SPC m s b	send buffer
SPC m s f	send function
SPC m s l	send line
SPC m s r	send region

Helpers

Key binding	Description
SPC m h h	view documentation for function at point
SPC m h i	read octave info documentation