From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Wed Jan 18 11:39:24 1995
Subject: On external editor problem
From: chris at astri dot uni dot torun dot pl (Krzysztof Gozdziewski)
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 18:36:34 +0100 (MET)


Hello !

I would like to thank J. Eaton and V. Dutt for response to my question
on calling an editor from octave session. They suggested following
solutions:

  o  simply suspend octave process, do editing and go back to octave
     (ok, it is the simplest solution, I do not know, why I forgot this)

  o  read more carefully the manual of octave :)
     John proposed me the following function 

        function edit(file)
        #
        # External editor 
        #
        system (["joe ", file, " >/dev/tty"]);
        endfunction 
  
     This works OK.

  o  run X-Windows (OK, but in our lab we have only text terminals, and
     software which is able to run only one telnet session). X-solution
     I apply in my daily work.


Thanks.

With regards
Krzysztof

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