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<h3 class="appendixsec">H.4 Using the Emacs Info Reader for Octave</h3>
<p>You may also use the Emacs Info reader with Octave's <code>doc</code> function.
For this, the package <samp><span class="file">gnuserv</span></samp> needs to be installed.
<p>If <samp><span class="file">gnuserv</span></samp> is installed, add the lines
<pre class="lisp"> (autoload 'octave-help "octave-hlp" nil t)
(require 'gnuserv)
(gnuserv-start)
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<p class="noindent">to your <samp><span class="file">.emacs</span></samp> file.
<p>You can use either `plain' Emacs Info or the function <code>octave-help</code>
as your Octave info reader (for ‘<samp><span class="samp">help -i</span></samp>’). In the former case,
use <code>info_program ("info-emacs-info")</code>.
The latter is perhaps more attractive because it allows to look up keys
in the indices of <em>several</em> info files related to Octave (provided
that the Emacs variable <code>octave-help-files</code> is set correctly). In
this case, use <code>info_program ("info-emacs-octave-help")</code>.
<p>If you use Octave from within Emacs, it is best to add these settings to
your <samp><span class="file">~/.emacs-octave</span></samp> startup file (or the file pointed to by the
Emacs variable <code>inferior-octave-startup-file</code>).
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