Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 12:02:37 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) From: Michael Hoffman Subject: Re: Windows Editor problem In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: grouse@mail.utexas.edu To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Raphael wrote: > EDITOR=c:/Textpad/TextPad.exe > > [...] > It starts ok, but any file passed through by cygwin misses the first > two characters. An example /tmp/crontab.1188 would become mp/crontab.1188 TextPad appears to be processing /tmp/crontab.1188 as the /t option followed by the file name. Non-Cygwin programs generally don't support Cygwin paths. Use cygpath. Here's an example for use with Emacs, a non-Cygwin program: emacs () { command emacs "`cygpath -w \"$@\"`" & } If you want to set EDITOR perhaps you could make a shell script which does the cygpathing. -- Michael Hoffman The University of Texas at Austin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/