Re: Using gvim as editor on Windows 7

[Daryl Lee]

Thanks again!  This is indeed a voyage of discovery.  I know you and the 
experienced readers will know all this, but for the benefit of other newbies 
coming along:

The reason "edit .octaverc" came up empty is that that file is in the home 
directory (~/), which is not in the search path.  "edit ~/.octaverc" works 
just fine, when the full path to gvim is specified.  So note to self: learn 
when search path is used.  It seems NOT to be used in "source('.octaverc')", 
for instance, but IS used in "edit foo.m".

Ironically, my next effort was "edit test.m", which turns out to actually 
exist in the search path, somewhere inside the Octave folder.  That really 
surprised me (and helped me figure out what was going on).

Thanks for the help.  There's a lot to learn here.

On 6/24/2011 7:11 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Daryl Lee wrote:
>
> > I just bought the newly announced book "GNU Octave Beginner's Guide" and 
> > discovered I should be able to redefine the default editor.  My preferred editor is gvim, 
> > and I'm on Windows 7, Octave 3.2.4.  I have not been able to work out the syntax for 
> > passing a filename to gvim for editing.  Here's what I've done:
> >
> > edit editor "gvim"
> > edit .octaverc
> >
> > With that I get "Create process failed..."
> >
> > So I spelled out the path:
> >
> > edit editor "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Vim\\vim73\\gvim.exe"
> > edit .octaverc
> >
> > With that I get a nice gvim editor, but no file opened, and this in the console:
> >
> > warning: edit: some elements in list of return values are undefined
> > error: matrix cannot be indexed with .
> >
> > So I add %s to the command:
> >
> > edit editor "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Vim\\vim73\\gvim.exe %s"
> > edit .octaverc
> >
> > And that has no effect (gvim launched, no file, and same warnings).
> >
> > I'm sure I'm missing something.  I know the authors of the book targeted Linux, 
> > so I'm wondering if someone has suggestions on how to do this with Windows?
> >
> > --
> > Daryl Lee
>
> I haven't tried this on WIndows, but with MacOS my octaverc contains ...
>
>         edit editor "mvim %s"
>         edit mode async
>
> Perhaps you just need to add the second line?
>
> Ben

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