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Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:43:51 -0400
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Csaba Raduly sent the following at Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:59 AM
>On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, lood wrote:
>> Hi all. How could I integrate my text editor (e.g. Notepad++) to run
>> it easily from Cygwin?  I mean, something similar to "notepad
>> ./file.ext" - this works, I just want to use Notepad++ instead of
>> standard Windows editor ("notepad++ ./file.ext" or something like
>> that).  Where I can add this functionality?  Thanks.
>
>Do you want something like this?
>
>/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe ./file.ext &

Or maybe this bash shell function (in .bashrc).

notepad ()
{
    cygstart -d "$(dirname "$1")" '/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Notepad++/note=
pad++.exe' "$(cygpath -w "$1")"
}


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