[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #40450] edit new.m file behaviour

[Ben Abbott]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #40450 (project octave):

Is this an area where we would like to copy Matlab's behavior?

For non-existent files, "edit foo" results in a dialog asking if foo.m should
be created.  Using "foo.m", "foo.c", "foo.cc", "foo.txt", etc gives the same
behavior (with the ".m" suffix replaced the the suffix used).

I think it reasonable for the CLI version to default to creating the file
asked for, but am uncertain what "edit foo" should do for the CLI.  Should the
CLI treat "edit foo" as "edit foo.m" or just create the file "foo" with no
suffix?

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