Inferior octave freezes

emacs, octave

Solution

With Emacs 24.3.1 simply add `PS1(">> ")` to `~/.octaverc`. No need to change the value of 'inferior-octave-prompt'.

Problem

In emacs octave-mode, when I type M-x run-octave the command freezes so I do C-g to escape. I can switch to the *Inferior Octave* buffer with C-x b but there is no prompt, just the welcome message. C-c i l also does not work.

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