Re: Starting using octave - Editors

[robert Macy]

Didn't download emacs or vi, just don't like to perturb my
working system by loading it up too much more than
necessary.  

Someone mentioned using 
  http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

After downloading the non .dll version which was only
261KB, program works great, is one step above notepad, and
now I don't really need much more editing power.  

Also, edits .lua scripts I use elsewhere.  

            - Robert -

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:33:12 -0600
 acoohdb <address@hidden> wrote:
> You (address@hidden) write:
> >On Dec 2, 2003 at 1:03am, acoohdb wrote:
> >
> >acoohd >The simple minded way would be a start.bat that
> loads notebook and a
> >
> >Wait, didn't you just say the other day that you're the
> kinda guy that
> >likes "full control" ? Using "Notepad" for text-editing
> is like kiddie-bike 
> >training
> >wheels. 
> 
> Yes, but notepad is one simple editor that can generally
> be considered
> to be available on any windows machine. So for a distro
> it would be
> preferable.
> 
> >You should really look into using a syntax/indentation
> -aware
> >editor ( that does debugging, font-highlighting, etc. ).
> The top two
> >that I'd recommend are Emacs and "vi".
> 
> I know, but unless you include it in the windows version,
> which I rather
> got the impression wasn't favourably looked upon, you
> can't be tolerably
> sure it will be on most people's machines. Indeed I
> suspect you can be
> sure the above will NOT be. Bear in mind that I am
> thinking about first
> time users, once you get into it a bit and realise it's
> something you
> can use then it starts to become worthwhile to spend time
> and effort
> getting just what you want.
> 



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