Windows Editor problem

[Raphael]

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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

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