Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] Matlab-Shell & Sun Grid Engine

[Eric L. <Eri...@ma...>]

Hi,

  The variable 'matlab-shell-command' needs to be a string that represents a single executable.  In your case, you want it to just be "qrsh".   You would then set 'matlab-shell-command-switches' to be '("-b" "y" "-q" "single" "-V" ...) with all your switches spelled out.  It seems outlook is messing with my 'quote' marks, so you will need to type it in and not copy what I typed here.

Good Luck
Eric

From: David Chappaz [mailto:dav...@fr...]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:51 AM
To: mat...@li...
Subject: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] Matlab-Shell & Sun Grid Engine

Hi everyone,

I'm having a simple problem configuring matlab-shell-command.
The thing is I actually never run matlab locally on the machine I am logged on, but matlab is submitted as a job to a large pool of linux machines with the Sun Grid Engine.

In other words, I don't use the "matlab" command at the shell prompt, but instead I use something like:

qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell matlab

Now, everything works fine by default, if I set matlab-shell-command to "matlab".
But if I set matlab-shell-command to "qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell matlab", a problem occurs in matlab.el (matlab-shell function), and more specifically on this line :

(switch-to-buffer
      (apply 'make-comint matlab-shell-buffer-name matlab-shell-command
                           nil matlab-shell-command-switches))

which returns the error message
Searching for program: no such file or directory, qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell matlab

As a workaround, I have tried defining an alias in my .cshrc, something like:
alias sge_matlab 'qrsh -b y -q single -V -cwd -noshell matlab'

and this works to manually start matlab from the shell. But again if I set matlab-shell-command to "sge_matlab", then I get
apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, sge_matlab

So what is the proper way to get everything to work in my case ?

Many thanks in advance !
Cheers,
David.