Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:19:16 +0100
From: Raphael <raphael AT oninet DOT pt>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows Editor problem
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0208031155450.1604-100000@barbecueworld>
Message-ID: <Pine.CYG.4.44.0208032116520.1160-100000@toos>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Michael Hoffman wrote:

> 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:

[Knocks head several times on desktop] Now why didn't I think of that?
>
> emacs ()
> {
>     command emacs "`cygpath -w \"$@\"`" &
> }
>
> If you want to set EDITOR perhaps you could make a shell script which does
> the cygpathing.

Jup I probably have no other choice, I'll try that, thanks for the cookie.

Raphael

- -- 
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction
listen to weather forecasts and economists?
		-- Kelvin Throop III
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Cygwin32)

iD8DBQE9TDrLWEtPuWPcngsRAo5lAJwPhYHoLMVW2/Fql2YLqoF8MAqCyACeIA0K
PrGYGpxX6ec38UIpcSMOUnY=
=FVdk
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
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/