Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Bill Denney wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Paul Billings wrote:
>
> > The fact that cygwin and windows-native paths are incompatible is not 
> > widely known.  Actually, anyone that tries it will find out quickly 
> > enough.  It is the solution that is not widely known.  The trick of 
> > using cygpath in the editor command 1) needs to be documented, but 2) 
> > is windows specific -- and therefore I don't feel it should go into 
> > the cross-platform documentation (i.e., edit.m).
>
> 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`'

Okay, I added the bit on the end (or I will when sourceforge starts 
responding)

## editor
##   This is the editor to use to modify the functions.  By default it 
uses
##   Octave's EDITOR state variable, which comes from getenv("EDITOR") 
and
##   defaults to vi.  Use %s in place of the function name.  E.g.,
##     [EDITOR, " %s"]
##       use the editor which Octave uses for bug_report
##     "xedit %s &"
##       pop up simple X11 editor in a separate window
##     "gnudoit -q \"(find-file \\\"%s\\\")\""
##       send it to current emacs; must have (gnuserv-start) in .emacs
##
##   On cygwin, you will need to convert the cygwin path to a windows
##   path if you are using a native Windows editor.  For example
##     '"C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe" `cygpath -wa %s`'
##   Pay attention to the "" and ``; they are significant.
##

I don't see any need to patch the function body.

- Paul



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