Re: Newbie questions...

[Jun Ohta]

Hello,

'edit' function uses the following M-file:
"/opt/octave/share/octave/2.1.50/site/m/octave-forge/miscellaneous/edit.m".

I hadn't used this function on MS windows. But, I tried to use it there. It 
seemed to 
generate M-file names with path for the default editor. But, the resulting file 
names wih 
path seemed to be suitable for editors on cygwin (not suitable for notepad on 
MS windows). 

I usually edit M-files from Explorer on MS windows. 
If your m-files are put in "c:\octave", you can use those functions after the 
following 
command.

path( [':/cygdrive/c/octave//'] )

To conduct the above command at every octave startup, I use an ".octaverc" or 
"octaverc" 
file which have the above command line. See your manual (HTML) for "Startup 
Files" in 
"Getting Started".

Jun Ohta
Okayama University

address@hidden wrote:
> 
>I'm using Octave 2.1.50 (installed with one click)....and am having the  sort 
>of problems one encounters with a new system.... I'm an experienced MATLAB  
>user....and am now trying to get up to speed (about 5 mph) with Octave...
> 
>1...I can't get the edit function to work.... I found the DEFAULT_LOADPATH  
>variable and some m-libraries, and can use Notepad to create an m-file 
>function 
> in one of these libraries and this works OK, Octave finds the function when 
>I  execute it, but edit(fun) ...where fun is the function name... generates a 
>slew  of errors.  So, how does one use edit ????? Where should one put 
>m-files,  etc.
> 
>2.  A simple plot has a Line1 and a red line in the upper right  
>corner....can that be omitted ...
> 
> 
>Thanks,
>WDF
>



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