All, See my rant from here: https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/pull/165#issuecomment-77228901 It seems like it would be a minor thing, but you're standing in front of a room telling 3-sets of users to "Now open Notepad++ if you're on windows, or Kate if you're on Linux, or TextMate if you're on a Mac, or whatever you want to use if you're more advanced",then you demonstrate on the one you use (probably with a different UI than >25% of the learners). You've now lost EVERYONE and caused mass confusion in novice rooms. I am 100% in the camp of suffering through nano, even if you're morally opposed to it, as an editor that can be run from the command prompt on all platforms. I've tried both, I much prefer teaching flow using nano.
Basically if you have a diversity of editors (different ones on linux, windows and mac) you're going to lose a room of novices. Getting nano working is really preferred imho. I think we should be able to get nano installed as a MSYS2 package. Anyone smart enough on Windows and MSYS2 to know how we'd do that? I don't have a windows box to try it. -- Jonah On August 21, 2015 at 4:30:06 PM, Carl Boettiger ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: Would atom (https://atom.io) be a viable option here? On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 2:24 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 20:57, Amanda Charbonneau wrote: | Hey all, | | I'm teaching to all Windows users next week, so I'm doing a dry run on a new | Windows VM to test everything. I installed the 32bit version and 64bit version | of GitBash 2.5.0, and neither will let me run Nano. | | I get the following error: | | > $ nano | > Redirection is not supported. | | I Googled a while, and there apparently was a similar error using emulators on | windows in 2012. The fix for that was: | | > $ export TERM=cygwin | | but that doesn't work now. | | Any other ideas??? We told participants in today's workshop to say 'notepad' when 'nano' fails. A better solution would certainly we welcomed by many. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- http://carlboettiger.info _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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