Run octave-cli in vscode terminal

Question

I am a Windows user, I want to use octave in the terminal of vscode.
I have put octave to the environment variable, but when I type octave in the terminal, it pop out the gui version.
I have tried to type octave --no-gui, it pop out the octave-cli window (Please refer to the image attached).
Here are the questions:

1. How can I use octave-cli in the terminal of vscode?
2. Can I disable octave use gui when I type octave or I can only type octave --no-gui to use cli version?

Answer 1

In addition to the octave.vbs file that most people use to start octave, there is also an octave.bat file located under %OCTAVE-HOME%/mingw64/bin.

I'm not familiar with vscode, but if I open a Windows command prompt, navigate to c:\Octave\octave-6.4.0-w64\mingw64, and type octave.bat (no options used), it opens octave in the existing window.

Answer 2

Run Octave in VSCode Jupyter Notebook

You can change line octave-cli.exe % to octave-gui.exe --no-gui % in file octave.bat:

Rem   Start Octave (this detaches and immediately returns).

if %GUI_MODE%==1 (
  start octave-gui.exe --gui %*
) else (
  octave-gui.exe --no-gui %*
  Rem  octave-cli.exe %*
)

Instead of starting octave-cli.exe you are starting GUI octave-gui.exe --no-gui without graphical use interface.

Check available graphics toolkits in octave:

octave> available_graphics_toolkits()

Answer should be

ans = {
  [1,1] = fltk
  [1,2] = gnuplot  
  [1,3] = qt
}

Check which graphics toolkit is used

graphics_toolkit()
ans = qt

Answer should be qt. Benefit of the change is that now you can use best inline graphics in Jupyter Notebooks and also in VSCode Jupyter Notebooks.

John