using vim as default editor in octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 12, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Bobatapl wrote:

>
> I have been trying to set up vim as the default editor in  
> octave-3.0.1-1.1 in
> SuSE 10.2, and have tried the following both in my .octaverc and  
> directly
> from the octave command line:
>
> edit editor "vim %s"
>
> EDITOR  "vim"
>
> EDITOR "vim -T xterm %s"

Try

	edit editor "xterm -e vim %s"

Ben