Re: newbie who can't edit

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| On 29 January 2011 13:23, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On Jan 29, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Vokey, John wrote:
| 
| >> I just type edit at the prompt, and octave becomes completely unresponsive.
| >
| > I got that. I'd like to patch Octave so that the freeze doesn't happen.
| 
| There's the editing mode variable that I don't really get why it even exists.
| 
| My .octaverc has
| 
|      edit mode async
| 
| perhaps this should just always be on? I can't imagine why one would
| want Octave to wait on an editor process and be unresponsive in the
| meantime.

It makes sense if your editor does not open a new window.  For
example, try

  edit editor "emacs -nw %s"
  edit mode async
  edit foo.m

and I think you'll see that weird things happen.  But that's probably
not the most common usage now, so I think it would be fine to change
the default.

jwe