We're in the middle of a workshop at Wollongong, and had a problem using
nano on Windows machines (but was fine on OSX and linux). We encountered
the 'redirection not supported' message that has been discussed
previously on this list:
http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2015-August/thread.html#3263
&
http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2015-September/subject.html#3341
The solution we settled on was to invite learners to use whatever text
editor they already felt comfortable with, which for the Windows users
was Notepad or Notepad++
In a quiet moment after the workshop, I read through the previous
discussions on this list and did a test with one of the learners. We
determined that our windows learners simply hadn't properly followed the
git installation instructions on the workshop webpage. Perhaps they were
careless, perhaps they were a bit overwhelmed by the unfamiliar options.
We wondered about the possibility of bundling git into the SWC installer
and setting these options so that the user doesn't have to be so
attentive to changing the installation options (cf. a similar suggestion
by Trevor King here:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/issues/31#issuecomment-133740208).
In any case, if you've got a workshop coming up, I'd recommend that in
your pre-workshop emails you ask Windows users to be especially
attentive to the git installation instructions, rather than clicking
through and accepting the defaults.
Ben
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