Re: newbie who can't edit

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Vokey, John <vokey <at> uleth.ca> writes:

> 
> A long Matlab user, just started with Octave. 
> Most everything I want from Matlab works with Octave (i.e.,
> every .m file I have tested works), 
>so I am quite pleased.  BUT, I can't edit anything.  
>When I type edit or edit
> name, nothing happens.  The terminal window just locks up, 
>and I have to close the window and restart
> Octave.  Am I missing something?

The "edit" command in octave is not very well developed, I assume because it
call an outside program.  (It probably works better in unix)

It is a little less convenient, but I just open an emacs editor.  
Then I "cd" in
both emacs and octave to the same directory and 
alt-tab between them as necessary.

HTH