Re: [Octave-cvsupdate] octave-forge/main/miscellaneous/inst edit.m, 1.4, 1.5

[Olli Saarela]

>   edit('editor','"C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe" "$(cygpath -wa $s)"')
>
> Can somebody with a windows box confirm that the quotes are needed?

Yes, double quotes are needed. I'm currently running 2.1.50, and the 
command above starts the correct editor, but it doesn't find the file. 
There is an error message from cygpath, and it seems $s is not evaluated.

>> edit('editor','"C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe" "$(cygpath 
-wa $s)"')
>> edit foo.m
Usage: cygpath (-d|-m|-u|-w|-t TYPE) [-c HANDLE] [-f FILE] [options] NAME
cygpath [-ADHPSW]

Printing out the argument to system in edit.m gives
ans = "C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe" "$(cygpath -wa $s)"


Best regards, and thank you for the good work
  Olli

PS. Some alternatives for quotation, both of the following work in 
Octave 2.1.50

>> ls '"d:/my files"'   % single quotes around double quotes
>> ls ''d:/my\ files/'' % two single quotes at each end


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