bug in edit.m

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Jan-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:

| Should we consider the manner that Matlab handles this?.

Sure.  I propose that in the future, we simply write "WWMD?" or
"WDMD?" to ask this question.  OK, I'm only half serious about that.

| On my system, Matlab will open the file in place even if it is *read- 
| only*. I like that feature since I use source control. If I make  
| changes, I only have to check it out before trying to save it.
| 
| In the event, you "edit <somefile>" and <somefile> does not exist in  
| the path, then Matlab opens the file in the pwd.
| 
| Thoughts?

I see

  edit /foo.m      %% / exists, but no write access; opens ./foo.m instead

  edit /bar/foo.m  %% /bar does not exist => error

jwe