Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] git repo at sourceforge.

[Uwe B. <ou...@ma...>]

>>> "Eric" == Eric Ludlam <Eri...@ma...> writes:


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   > Hi Uwe,

   > In the distant past, Emacs Matlab debugging worked by parsing the
   > raw output text. It was a bit finicky but worked ok. That broke
   > when the text output suddenly started emitting html style hotlinks
   > as part of the java desktop. I re-wrote the parsing engine to focus
   > on the hotlinks because they were very regular and reliable. It
   > turns out, that the emitting of hotlinks was a bug that they ever
   > came out on a generic terminal, so that was fixed, so now there is
   > nothing for the parsing engine to pay attention to.

   > I like the idea of having new db commands unique to Emacs so that
   > we control the output. If we turn the hotlink feature off
   > (currently being turned on) and switch to these new commands,
   > things should work in older MATLABs as well.

So to be sure: that patch we are talking about does these 2 things?
Or must the hotlink feature turned off manually? If so then this should
be mentioned in the release notes and/or the doc string. 

   > It will take a bit of testing to make sure it works reliably, and I
   > think the # folks on this mailing list has gotten pretty small. I
   > think it's worth going for it and expanding to all the relevant
   > debug commands, and posting a request for testing when the patch is
   > in.


Ok I could apply the patch and change the matlab version number to make
clear that there is something *new*, but I want to be sure not to break
backward compatibility, also out of egoistic motives. I am still stuck
on my laptop to Matlab 2010 and don't want to break things.


   > It doesn't help with error output, and jump-to-last-error though.
   > That would still need to be solved.
Ok

Uwe