X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: nedit windows integration Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:06:44 -0500 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote: > I created an nedit shortcut on my desktop. > It is just a shortcut to "c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe nedit" > This works fine but I can't drag files on top of it to edit them because > it expects /cygdrive/c/somefile.txt instead of c:\somefile.txt > > Is there a solution for this kind of thing? > I thought that run.exe would reformat the parameters into the correct > format but I guess not. > Is there another program that does?...maybe run.exe isn't the way to go. Instead of 'nedit', you could run.exe a script that looks something like: nedit $(cygpath -u "$1") -- Matthew People say I'm going insane. I say, "what do you mean, 'going'?". -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/