Re: Complete bewildered newbie question

[Paul Kienzle]

On Mar 24, 2004, at 7:25 AM, David Nicholls wrote:

> Q.3 When I ran the install program, as it finished, it asked for 
> details
> of my preferred editor, so I entered
> C:\Program Files\NoteTab Pro\NoteTab.exe
> However when I type 'edit "filename.m"' in the rxvt window, I get the
> message 'C/Program: not found' which suggests to me the the entry in 
> the
> file start_octave.sh is wrong.  What should the line starting 'export
> EDITOR=' have in it?  Or is the idiot Windows file naming system
> incompatible?  If I double click on the .m file in Windows Explorer, it
> opens in notepad.

Does your EDITOR= line have quotes around the filename?
Mine does not.  This would be a problem if I were not using
notepad.

Paul Kienzle
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