Re: 2.9.14 on Mac OSX: EDITOR command not found

[DushanM]

Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm also on Mac OS X and have been looking for an editor to use with
> Octave. I've just installed TextMate to try it out. Upon installation
> it asked to place the program "mate" into /usr/bin. "mate" may be run
> from the command line, but TextMate must be run by clicking on the  
> icon (i.e. graphically).
> 
> If you find that /usr/bin/mate exists then all you need to do is  
> replace  is there, then you all you need is to place the following
> 
>   export EDITOR=mate
> 
> in your bashrc file.
> 
> fwiw, TextMate does look promising. However, I'll give emacs and  
> octave.el a try 1st ... provided I can figure out out how to set it  
> up ... and if I can find an up to date version of octave.el

Ben, thanks for this advice - it worked for me.  Now TextMate gets
activated.

- Dushan