X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4532F13A.5040000@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:40:58 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Can not start UltraEdit using cygwin path References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com lin q wrote: >> From: Brian Dessent >> lin q wrote: >> >> > If I run it with cygwin path like this, >> > >> > uedit /cygdrive/c/tmp/log >> > >> > UltraEdit says the path is wrong. >> >> UltraEdit is not a Cygwin application. How on earth do you expect it to >> understand something beginning in /cygdrive? Look into cygpath. > I know cygpath, but it is easier to just type in DOS path than to use > cygpath each time. > >> >> > Interesting enough, I have similar function for gvim, >> > >> > vi () >> > { >> > gvim $@ & >> > } >> >> gvim is a Cygwin application. > I download gvim myself from vim web site and installed it, it is not the > one in cygwin package. This is the reason I think the application does > not have to be from cygwin package. One non-Cygwin application that you may have been able to get to understand some POSIX path does not mean any or all non-Cygwin applications will understand all POSIX paths. As Brian points out, you should not expect non-Cygwin applications to understand POSIX paths. If you want such ability, you will need to build such applications with Cygwin's gcc/g++ (without the -mno-cygwin flag). FWIW, there is a gvim package for Cygwin. This certainly understand POSIX paths. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/