On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 08:29:21PM -0400, Ethan White wrote: > 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.
is there any solution currently that will get nano working on git-bash, including cursor keys? I quite agree with Jonah's remarks (below) and would therefore very much like to have a simple terminal-based editor, so learners won't have to synchro-navigate on the shell and in the fileselect box of their GUI text editor. Best regards, Jan > 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. > > > >-- > >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 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Discuss mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: [email protected] | | WWW: http://www.jtkim.dreamhosters.com/ | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
