Octave layer

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1. Description
2. Install
3. Key bindings
- 3.1. Inferior REPL process
- 3.2. Helpers

1 Description

This layer activates octave-mode for files with .m extensions and configures spacemacs-style key bindings.

2 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.

3 Key bindings

3.1 Inferior REPL process

Send code to inferior process with these commands:

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

3.2 Helpers

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