Re: How to set the editor for Octave in 3.0

[Michael Goffioul]

On 2/10/08, Jaap A. Haitsma <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't want to change my EDITOR environment variable, to select the
> editor I want to use for octave.
> If I put
>
> EDITOR="gedit"
>
> in ~/.octaverc
>
> I get the following error
>
> warning: EDITOR is no longer a built-in variable; please read the NEWS
> file or type `news' for details
>
> Is there another way (except the environment variable) in octave 3.0 to do 
> this

If you read the EDITOR help ("help EDITOR"), then you learn that
changing the EDITOR value in octave is done with:

EDITOR("gedit")

instead of

EDITOR="gedit"

Michael.