Re: OCTAVE 3.6.2 INSTALL FOR WINDOWS 7 x64 NOTEPAD++ NOT LAUNCHING

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:48 PM, Gregory MacLean wrote:

> Dear Octave Help,
> 
> I recently manually installed Octave 3.6.2_gcc4.6.2 for widows per the 
> intructions on the sourceforge.net web site.
> 
> The problem I have is that Notepad++ will not launch as the editor? The 
> default editor comes up instead.
> 
> I followed the instructions on the read me file to download Notepad++ and 
> uncomment the octaverc file 
> to EDITOR('C:\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe');. I tried several 
> combinations/numbers of backslashes (\\\),forward slashes (///) 
> and ' ', " "?
> 
> I am running Windows 7, x64 bit.
> 
> I installed octave to C:\Octave\octave3.6.2_gcc4.6.2 to avoid any white 
> spaces and the same for notepad C:\Notepad++
> 
> Thank you for any input or suggestions
> Sincerely,
> Greg MacLean

You don't require double back-slashes when using single quotes.

        
http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows#Optional_installation_of_Notepad.2B.2B_as_an_editor_.28recommended.29

Try adding the following to your ~/.octaverc file.

        EDITOR ('C:\Notepad++\notepad++.exe');
        edit ("editor", sprintf ("%s %%s", EDITOR ()))
        edit mode async

Ben