From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Mar 24 18:41:07 2004 Subject: Re: Complete bewildered newbie question From: David Nicholls To: Octave_post Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:39:42 +1100 Andy Adler wrote: >> on 3/24/04 4:25 AM, David Nicholls at dcn at dcnicholls dot com 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. > > I thought that the install script corrected for spaces in the filename, > but obviously this isn't the case. > > Try entering > C:/progra~1/noteta~1/notetab.exe > (using forward slashes) > Thanks. It worked in so far as the window console of Octave (I thought it was called rxvt, am I wrong?) now calls NoteTab, but for windows reasons the file itself doesn't show. So for the moment I'll clear the EDITOR= entry and accept notepad. I read somewhere that other windows editor programs are recommended (maybe during the install, I forget) - is there an obvious good choice for editor in windows? DN -- ____________________________________ David Nicholls Nicholls Communications http://www.dcnicholls.com/ ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------