Opening editor from Octave command line

[Bowles.Terry]

Hi, sorry for such a fundamental question, new to Octave, migrating from Matlab.

 

Want to use ‘edit’ command to create new m-file if it doesn’t exist or open one in my editor if it does exist:

 

octave> edit some_fnc

 

I changed the octaverc file to point to my editor:

 

## Uncomment and change following line for your preferred editor

EDITOR('C:\\Program Files\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe');

 

and I added to the path the directory where my functions live:

 

octave> addpath (some_path/some_dir, 1)

 

To create a new file in some_dir, I do the following:

 

octave> cd some_path/some_dir

octave> edit some_fnc

 

To edit a file that already exists in some_path/some_dir, I can of course skip the ‘cd some_path/some_dir’ command, since that directory is in the path:

 

octave> edit some_fnc

 

In either case I get the same error message:

 

error: system: CreateProcess failed – can’t create child process

error: called from:

error:     D:\program files\Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2\share\octave\3.6.1\m\miscellaneous\edit.m at line 299, column 7

 

I frankly cannot understand the edit.m file well enough to diagnose the problem myself.

 

BTW, when creating some_fnc for the first time, Octave does NOT open some_fnc in my editor as hoped, but it DOES create a some_fnc.m function stub in some_path/some_dir.

 

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks so much!

 

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