I have just posted two work arounds that will solve this issue
immediately in the relevant issue:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/issues/31#issuecomment-133596799
Neither of these is a great long-term solution and I'm working on seeing
if I can get something that's a smooth and robust solution, but for
those of you teaching right now one of these will hopefully be an
improvement.
On 08/21/2015 07:55 PM, Duckles, Jonah M. wrote:
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.
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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
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