environment variables with jEdit front end for Octave 3.0.1

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Siddhartha wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm using jEdit as a alternative editor with Octave 3.0.1 on
> a mac OSX leopard, but it seems I have to type in
>
> edit editor "/Users/chemistry/jEdit.app/contents/MacOS/jedit
> %s"
>
> which is the path name to the editor(it is also the current
> directory) every time I open a new Octave terminal
>
> I know there must be some environmental variables that i
> need to load to get rid of this annoying bug, but am not
> sure how, or what those are....
>
> ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED!
> thanks,
> siddhartha owens

Place that line in your ~/.octaverc file

If the file does not exist, just create it and place that line in it.

Ben