EDITOR issue [WAS: Octave-3.6.1 for Windows (VS2008/VS2010) available]

[Philip Nienhuis]

Hi Michael:

Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:36 PM, PhilipNienhuis<address@hidden>  wrote:
<snip>
> > I suppose you're after some testing results. OK, I tried the MSVC 2010
> > version (I selected "SSE3 multithreaded" on my Core Duo box).
>
> Thanks for testing.

Do you want issues to be reported in the bug tracker, this ML, 
sourceforge OctDev ML, or even privately?
I see the MSVC binaries as experimental for the time being, so the bug 
tracker may not be the best option right now until the binaries are stable.


These days I am busy with a job comprising fairly intense stuff (lots of 
data handling and graphics) so perhaps more issues will come up :-)


Anyway, another issue (MSVC2008 version):
As you can see below, Octave doesn't pick up a new EDITOR VALUE.
Although it does suggest so (see command 28), the FUNCTION struct still 
says "emacs":

octave-3.6.1.exe:25> EDITOR ('C:\Programs\Notepad++\notepad++.exe')
octave-3.6.1.exe:26> edit mfsetup.m
error: system: CreateProcess failed -- can't create child process
error: called from:
error: 
C:\Programs\Octave\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2008\share\octave\3.6.1\m\miscellaneous\edit.m 
at line 299, column 7
octave-3.6.1.exe:26> dbstop edit 299
ans =  299
octave-3.6.1.exe:27> edit mfsetup.m
stopped in 
C:\Programs\Octave\Octave-3.6.1_MSVC2008\share\octave\3.6.1\m\miscellaneous\edit.m 
at line 299
299:       system (sprintf (FUNCTION.EDITOR, cstrcat ("\"", fileandpath, 
"\"")),
debug> FUNCTION
FUNCTION =

  scalar structure containing the fields:

    EDITOR = emacs %s
    HOME = C:\Home\philip\octave
    AUTHOR = philip
    EMAIL = <address@hidden>
    LICENSE = GPL
    MODE = async
    EDITINPLACE = 0

debug> dbquit

octave-3.6.1.exe:28> EDITOR
ans = C:\Programs\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
octave-3.6.1.exe:29>


P.