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Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 12:02:37 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Windows Editor problem
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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 <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
The University of Texas at Austin


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