Re: MinGW: EDITOR error messages on GUI startup

[PhilipNienhuis]

Mike Miller wrote
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 09:01:11 -0800, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
>> (Inquiry before perhaps entering a bug report)
>>
>> 1. Upon start of Octave (MXE cross-build, hg summary a99b7d656c  start in
>> CLI mode ....") I found that the "New file" button / menu entry in the
>> Edit
>> pane didn't work.
>> OK, it could be fixed by unselecting the "Use custom editor" option in
>> Preferences | Editor (where notepad++ turned out to be set as default
>> editor).
>> (BTW I've never selected that option in my preferences from previous dev
>> versions, why is that overridden?)
>>
>> 2. Now, upon each start of Octave I get this:
>>
>> =======================================================
>> GNU Octave, version 3.7.7+
>> Copyright (C) 2013 John W. Eaton and others.:
>> :
>> 
> <snip>
>> :
>> error: The EDITOR option of edit has been removed. Use EDITOR() directly.
>> error: called from:
>> error:
>> X:\Octave\octave-377+_MXE\share\octave\3.7.7+\m\miscellaneous\edit.m at
>>  line 162, column 9
>> error:   X:\Octave\octave-377+_MXE\share\octave\site\m\startup/octaverc
>> at
>> line
>> 7, column 1
>>>>
>> =======================================================
>>
>> I think for average users, both 1. and 2. could be quite confusing at
>> least.
> 
> Philip, the error is a result of a change Carnë and I talked about last
> night.
> 
> I think this can be fixed by changing the octaverc installed by
> mxe-octave to use the EDITOR function instead of edit() to set the
> editor to notepad++. Something like
> 
>   EDITOR (fullfile (OCTAVE_HOME, "notepad++", "notepad++.exe"));

Yep that fixes the problem.

Thanks,

Philip



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