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From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re:
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:23:56 -0400

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On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 26, 2012, at 3:44 AM, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> > I am very thankful for you dedicating in answering questions about GNU 
>> > Octave. Here is a little question I'd like to ask.
>> > I am using Octave 3.2.4  configured for "i686-pc-linux-gnu" in 32-bit 
>> > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i386. I like Vim, and I added the following line to 
>> > ~/.octaverc :
>> >
>> > edit editor "gvim %s &"
>> >
>> > It brings gvim as expected. Here are 2 questions:
>> > 1. But I'd like to use vim, so could it be possible to edit a file through 
>> > vim in octave? Say you want to edit foo.m, and you edit it. After 
>> > finished, you just quit vim to go back to octave for other work.
>> >
>> > 2. On the other hand, gvim brings another window. So I'd like to edit 
>> > foo.m and after writing the file I just want to run it within octave 
>> > WITHOUT actually quittting gvim. But for the moment, octave waits gvim to 
>> > quit before accepting any further input. So is this because the mark & did 
>> > not worked in the code? Please help me.
>> 
>> For vim ...
>> 
>>        edit editor "vim %s"
>>        edit mode sync
>> 
>> This will allow you to edit using vim in Octave's command window.
>> 
>> For gvim, you'll want to edit in asynchronous mode (both Octave and the 
>> editor are active at the same time)
>> 
>>        edit editor "gvim %s"
>>        edit mode async
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Thanks, it worked fine with gvim.
> As for vim, vim complained that "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal ", 
> and I could not see vim open, but I had to :q! to go back to octave command 
> line. Is there any convenient way to deal with this warning?


Please verify you set the mode to "sync".

        edit editor "vim %s"
        edit mode sync

I'm running Octave-3.6.2. Your's is rather old. It is possible that something 
relevant has changed.

Ben



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