Re: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release

[Bill Denney]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Paul Kienzle wrote:

> ##   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.

So I had already been working on a patch that texinfo-izes the edit 
function's help.  Here it is with something similar to the above included.

Bill

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