Re: Edit problem Octave

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Paulo SantosVasconcelos <address@hidden> wrote:

 

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Subject: Re: Edit problem Octave

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Paulo SantosVasconcelos <address@hidden> wrote:

To whom it may concern,

 

I installed Octave with an installer made for Windows. I am learning MATLAB, so I was trying to use both program to make comparisons and test commands. The commands seemed to work fine but when I wanted to test writing a script...

 

I tried to run the notepad++ editor like this:

octave:1> edit

 

but, I got a system error that said:

octave:2>

error: system: CreateProcess failed -- can't create child process

error: called from:

error:     C:\Octave3.6.2_gcc4.6.2\share\octave\3.6.2\m\miscellaneous\edit.m at line 212, column 7 

 

I google it and found some fixes like: double or quadruple backslashes, forward slashes, but it did not work. 

 

Thank you for your help

Do you have the Notepad++ editor installed? (I know the MinGW version doesn't include Notepad++. fairly certain Visual Studio version doesn't either.

Brief directions for adding Notepad++
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows#Optional_installation_of_Notepad.2B.2B_as_an_editor_.28recommended.29

> Yes, I do have Notepad++ installed.

figured as much, thought worth asking. looks like it's the same problem reported here:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35283

supposedly it can be worked around by adding 

edit mode 'sync';

to your .octaverc file.  should be able to test by entering that command and typing edit, see if you still get the error.

nickj