Changing your editor in Octave

I like using GNU Octave for simple math calculations because it's free and easy to use like MATLAB.  But I have problems with the documentation that is neither copious not intuitive. Often times they just repeat the source code.  Well I could read the source code but where's the deeper meaning???


Here is how to change your default editor under Octave:

You can make a ".rc" resource file and place it in your home directory that specifies the exact editor and source location. For Linux;

 EDITOR("/usr/bin/gedit")

inside a file called ".octaverc"

This changes it permanently.

If you want to change it during the current session only type:

 edit editor '/usr/bin/gedit'

at the octave prompt.