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On Jun  4 11:40, Haojun Bao wrote:
> cygstart is so useful that I want type less keys:
> 
>     alias of=cygstart #on cygwin-1.5
> 
> or:
> 
>     function of ()
>     {
>         if which "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>             if [[ "$1" == of ]]; then
>                 local file=`which cygstart`;
>             else
>                 local file="`which \"$1\"`";
>             fi;
>             shift;
>             cygstart "$file" "$@";
>         else
>             cygstart "$@";
>         fi
>     } #on cygwin-1.7, because we must specify full path now
> 
> oc is my name for `open containing folder', and I peeked into source of
> Firefox to write it:
> 
>     function oc ()
>     {
>         cygstart `which explorer.exe` /n,/select,\""`cygpath -alw \"$1\"`"\"
>     }
>     
> It won't work for non-ascii file names though, as a Chinese, I feel
> a bit sorry for that

Did you read http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html?
Does it help?  I assume that cygstart itself isn't yet locale-aware.
This is all quite new.  Give us package maintainers a bit of time.


Corinna

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