Octave not finding updated edited files

[Ben Abbott]

On Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 02:02PM, "Jim Maas" <jimmaas at vodafoneemail.co.uk> wrote:
>This is a new one for me. I've been running octave 3.01 from the command 
>line on a Linux pc. Usually when debugging most programmes I run them, 
>then go and edit the file, and try running it again. I discovered that 
>octave was not finding the newly edited file after I made some changes 
>using Emacs. I had to exit octave and restart it again for it to find 
>the newly edited version of the .m file that I gave it a command to execute.
>
>Is this as it is supposed to be? Is there a way I can tell octave to 
>reload the most recently edited file before attempting to run the script 
>again from within octave?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jim

What files did you edit?

Where did you save them?

Are they in your path?

If the file you edited was foo.m, what do you get when you type "which foo"?

Does Octave find the file edited and saved or the unedited version?

Ben