When using the interactive octave prompt within emacs, plots appear in a new, separate window. (Worse, in my configuration, this window doesn’t even raise itself to be seen, and can’t be selected by keyboard window switching.)
Is there a way to have octave/gnuplot output show up within the emacs buffer itself?
How about using Emacs IPython Notebook and IPython octave magic (example output: http://mentat.za.net/refer/octave_magic.pdf via https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/1849/)? Disclaimer: I wrote Emacs IPython Notebook.