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RE: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release


From: Billings, Paul
Subject: RE: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:37:56 -1000

I would favor "... favorite windows based (non-cygwin) editor ...".  Given
that this help message is likely to be more widely read than a
octave-windows FAQ, it's probably more useful in edit.m.  It bothers me on
principle, but practically it seems better.

Paul


Bill Denney writes:
> I think that a brief statement along the lines of the following would be
> good in the edit.m command (people who don't use cygwin can ignore it
> easily enough):
>
> Note to Cygwin users: To use your favorite windows based editor
> (e.g. C:\Program Files\Good Editor\Editor.exe) with the
> edit command, you will need to setup your editor similarly to
>
> edit editor 'C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe `cygpath -wa %s`'



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