RE: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release

[Billings, Paul]

I did one thing: I put the following line in my .octaverc:
edit editor
'/cygdrive/c/progra~1/xemacs/XEmacs-21.4.13/i586-pc-win32/winclient.exe
`cygpath -msa %s`'

>From the octave prompt I type 'edit abc.m' and a function with lots of
boilerplate text shows up in my editor (native windows version of XEmacs).
The email address generated is "address@hidden", which is my username and
machine name.  Granted, it's not very useful as a public email address, but
I don't know how octave would get my real address since windows doesn't know
about that.  I would probably delete some of this boilerplate since it's not
public information.

This new file was created in $HOME/octave, not /octave_files.  ($HOME==my
cygwin home directory).  Attached is the file.  I'm running XP Pro SP1, GNU
Octave, version 2.1.73 (i686-pc-cygwin).

Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Stewart [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:53 AM
> To: Billings, Paul
> Cc: Bill Denney; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release
>
>
> Billings, Paul wrote:
>
> >Bill is correct -- I was saying that edit.m works "as-is" for me
> with proper
> >configuration of the EDITOR variable.  The fact that I have to set this
> >variable is clear from the edit.m help.
> >
> >
> Could you please tell me Exactly what to do to have the edit.m to
> actually work in windows.
>
> 1) the email address
> 2) create and edit a new file in  /octave_files.
> Thanks
> Doug Stewart
>
>
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