creating and editing m-files from Octave command line

[Bowles.Terry]

Hi –

 

I’m new to Octave, migrated from Matlab, having set-up issues. Trying to use the edit command from the Octave command line to create a new m-file if it doesn’t exist, and modify those that do. I have uncommented the EDITOR line in the octaverc file:

 

## Uncomment and change following line for your preferred editor

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

 

and  have added the path where my files exist, also in the octaverc file:

 

prefix=octave_config_info('prefix');       % My note: this line was part of the install, found it contains Octave’s home directory, which is what I want.

addpath(strcat(prefix, '\my_files\'), 1);

 

Restarted Octave and verified that the path does indeed contain the ‘my_files’ directory. However, if I cd to that directory and create a new file to edit:

 

Octave:15> edit testfnc

 

Octave creates a stub of the ‘testfnc’ file for me, but it does not open it in an editor window. Instead I get the following 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

 

And I get the same error message if I try to edit the newly-created stub.

 

I frankly cannot understand the edit.m file well enough to diagnose the problem myself. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks so much!

 

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