We just finished a 2-week workshop and although we did have some problems with
MSYS2, nano was not one of them. After some updates, we used the `pacman`
installer with this command and it worked fine..
pacman -S gcc python2 man nano sqlite vim git bc tar
Rudimentary instructions (not super robust!) are here in the brown box:
http://practicalcomputing.org/setup
-Steve
> On Aug 21, 2015, at 16:55 , Duckles, Jonah M. <[email protected]> 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.
>
> --
> Jonah
>
> On August 21, 2015 at 4:30:06 PM, Carl Boettiger ([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]> 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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