[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35283] Edit command does not work

[Randy]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #35283 (project octave):

I'm also having the same issue with edit under Windows (Linux works fine).
After a little bit of hacking, it looks like the culprit is the FUNCTION.MODE
parameter in line 299 of edit.m:

system (sprintf (FUNCTION.EDITOR, cstrcat (""", fileandpath, """)), [],
FUNCTION.MODE);

Changing it from "async" to "sync" makes it work properly. 

The documentation states that "The default is 'sync' (see also 'system')."
But, on line 157 of edit.m, it looks like the default is being set to 'async'.
Is the documentation in error? Did I misread the function? Or is the function
in error (by not agreeing with the documentation)? If the desired result is
that async be the default, would it not make sense to add an exception for
Windows platforms so that this command would work (edit is a lot more handy
than typing "system('gvim filename.m')" for every file I want to edit)?

Anyhow, I've resolved this issue (and you probably can too Mr. Anonymous) by
adding 
edit mode 'sync';
to my .octaverc file.




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