Comfortable Octave usage on Windows

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, maiky76 <maiky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: maiky76 <maiky76 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Comfortable Octave usage on Windows
> To: help-octave at octave.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 8:35 PM
> 


> Octave for windows and people told me that the “Graveyard
> black windows”
> didn’t appeal to them and it was too complex to use it.

Enough said.

Sometimes I think that people who grew up with GUI-based OSes have severely
crippled thinking abilities. I.e. they can't think "outside the (GUI ?)
box".

Under _any_ OS one can take _any_ text editor which has configurable
colors, configure the colors to his/her liking, write commands in the
editor and copy-paste them into the application - 'octave', for example.

I recently had a need to work under Windows in their brain-dead cmd.exe,
and luckily there is a nice notepad++ GPL editor (with syntax highlighting
mode for 'octave' among many other language) _and_ with a possibility to
run shell from it.

The editor is a multi-tab one, which makes it really nice.

So, whenever one has an intrinsically command-line based application,
he/she automatically has a GUI for it, and the GUI is called "your favorite
text editor".

Regards,
  Sergei.

P.S. The editor:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm