Re: Starting using octave

[robert Macy]

Although notepad is very functional for editing script
files, the line editor in octave jumps back and forth,
highlighting a matching parenthesis.  VERY worthwhile
feature.  Thus, an editor that highlights commands, etc
similar to the Fortran editor would also really simplify
writing script for the more advanced user.  

You are right, novices approaching octave have an attitude
of "walk before you run".  I am very reluctant to download
and install every gizmo possible because of some very poor
experiences with other software, including some very famous
commercial software.  Again, for a novice, it is a daunting
task to clean up after a messy installation.  

Is there a site we can go to, view contributions,
suggestions, make suggestions and/or give examples, and put
together a "Getting Started in Octave" manual?  With some
cutoff date given, after which a responsible party
synopsizes and converts all into reality.  

                      - Robert -

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:52:34 +0200
 Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:
> and now for my $0.02 :)
> 
> SciTe is a very good editor which has:
> 1) windows look & feel
> 2) GPL
> 3) very good hilighting of octave code
> 4) small footprint
> 
> see http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
> 
> really, for windows users emacs/xemacs are quite
> intimidating because of their unfamiliar GUI design
> philosophy. SciTe offers high quality editing with a
> familiar GUI
> 
>       Shai
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
> > On Dec 1, 2003 at 12:52am, acoohdb wrote:
> > 
> > acoohd >>For the ultimate Octave hacking experience,
> I'd recommend running it
> > acoohd >>from within Emacs ( NT Emacs, in your case ),
> with Octave-Mode
> > acoohd >>on. That will give you about as much editor as
> one can handle. ;-)
> > acoohd >
> > acoohd >I'm running 98SE, not being a fan of m$. My
> pascal versions run in DOS,
> > 
> > Wait, you're not a fan of m$, and you're running 98SE?
> Talk to Dirk
> > about Quantian. :-)
> > 
> > acoohd >largely because when using a PC as a process
> controller, I like to be in
> > acoohd >total command. Pascal (even very early ones)
> shipped with a small and
> > 
> > Total command? Great! You're describing GNU Emacs
> (works on 98SE):
> > 
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
> > 
> > acoohd >simple editor that was your front end to the
> compiler and only later,
> > acoohd >when one had more experience, did one
> contemplate more powerful third
> > acoohd >party ones. That meant you were up and running
> from the off and I would
> > acoohd >guess very few new users were even aware of the
> nuts and bolts going on.
> > acoohd >I suspect many never were.
> > 
> >>From within Emacs, you can have multiple windows open.
> So, for
> > example, I'm often working with a window open for my
> source code, one
> > for a shell ( in your case, the DOS shell ), and one
> showing my
> > interactive Octave session. You can do this with other
> computer
> > languages as well. Plus, Emacs does source code
> hi-lighting in
> > multiple colors, which makes catching syntax bugs
> easier.
> > 
> > Just my $0.02,
> > 
> > ~Tomer
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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