Re: newbie who can't edit

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 29, 2011, at 4:35 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> 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

I pushed this change.

        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/c37f167a816a

Ben