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Re: MinGW: EDITOR error messages on GUI startup


From: PhilipNienhuis
Subject: Re: MinGW: EDITOR error messages on GUI startup
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:52:32 -0800 (PST)

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 11/24/2013 12:53 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
>> 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"));
>>
>> I can't comment on the rest.
> 
> Hmm, I was just about to push a change to mxe-octave to remove
> notepad++ from the files we distribute.  Do we really need to continue
> including an editor with Octave now that the GUI has a reasonably good
> editor?  I'm willing to reconsider as notepad++ only adds about 5MB to
> to the a zip file that is already around 150MB.

I've been wondering a long time why notepad++ has been included for a
program that has an editor built-in.
But for the CLI, notepad++ is IMO one of the better editors around. For one,
it features column / columnwise editing (I use that quite often).
And as you say, 5 MB is not excessive. Octave's binary distribution size of
150 MB isn't much either by today's standard. I include the docs + some Java
class libs for spreadsheet I/O, and then it is still less than 200 MB.

Philip




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