From help-request at octave dot org Thu Mar 30 13:57:16 2006
Subject: RE: New Octave for Windows sourceforge release
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: Paul Billings <pbilling at SYSTEMS dot TEXTRON dot com>
cc: Doug Stewart <dastew at sympatico dot ca>, help@octave.org
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:55:52 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Paul Billings wrote:

> The fact that cygwin and windows-native paths are incompatible is not 
> widely known.  Actually, anyone that tries it will find out quickly 
> enough.  It is the solution that is not widely known.  The trick of 
> using cygpath in the editor command 1) needs to be documented, but 2) is 
> windows specific -- and therefore I don't feel it should go into the 
> cross-platform documentation (i.e., edit.m).

I think that a brief statement along the lines of the following would be 
good in the edit.m command (people who don't use cygwin can ignore it 
easily enough):

Note to Cygwin users: To use your favorite windows based editor 
(e.g. C:\Program Files\Good Editor\Editor.exe) with the 
edit command, you will need to setup your editor similarly to

edit editor 'C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe `cygpath -wa %s`'

The example could be changed to (x)emacs or something else if preferred.

Bill

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