Subject: Re: Nano fails to open file "~/.bashrc".
From: Oliver Schoede via Cygwin <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 10:55:53 +0100
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 10:53:42 -0500
Eliot Moss via Cygwin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>- Drop that nano and install the Cygwin one;
>- Invoke that nano with a Windows path, perhaps like this:
>
>nano $(cygpath -wa ~/.bashrc)
>

Another option is to tinker with your PATH, so that Cygwin's binaries
are found before others. I've been doing this in my .profile for years,
for similar reasons. It's a hack I admit, don't remember ever running
into problems though.

Greetings,
Oliver

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