[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44368] Opening an Octave file via a desktop application does not open file on Octave editor

[Carnë Draug]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44368>

                 Summary: Opening an Octave file via a desktop application
does not open file on Octave editor
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: carandraug
            Submitted on: Wed 25 Feb 2015 15:50:29 GMT
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

During installation, Octave "registers" as being able to handle Octave and
Matlab files.

This means that double click on a file with MIME type text/x-octave and
text/x-matlab will open on Octave session.  However, this will only execute
the file not open it on the Octave GUI editor which is probably what a user
wants. With the octave program now being both a language and an IDE, an
"--edit" option would be useful to do this.

Bug #42603 (GUI: allow opening an m-file in the editor of a running instance)
is related to this issue.  They solve the problem related on this bug by
having desktop applications opening files with 'octave --force-gui --persist
--eval "edit %1"' 

The same workaround can be used by having the following line on
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/bf511802add7/etc/icons/octave.desktop.in


Exec=/usr/local/bin/octave --force-gui --persist --eval "edit %f"


Or should we really get an --editor flag that could maybe even accept multiple
files?




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