A little annoiance after modifying my .bashrc file to add an alias to edit files

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Risposta al messaggio di Larry Hall (Cygwin) :

> I'm curious why you query the list for help instead of your original source.


Since, I suppose that the author doesn't know the answer, because I 
suppose, that if he knew the answer would have written it directly in 
article. In past I have always asked in this newsgroup for Cygwin 
related problems, always with good and satisfactory answers, like in 
this occasion
And asking in newsgroup I could easily save the thread archiving it in TB.


> That notwithstanding, the reason you see this is because the alias you found
> and are using is wrong.  From the bash man page:
>
>     There is no mechanism for using arguments in the replacement text.  If
>     arguments are needed, a shell function should be  used  (see  FUNCTIONS
>     below).
>
> The alias you pulled from the web tries to work-around this restriction,
> without much success (not surprisingly).  Use a function something like
> this:
>
> edit ()
> {
>      cygstart "/cygdrive/c/Programmi/Crimson\ Editor/cedt.exe" $(cygpath -w
> "$*")




Thank you very much Larry for you explanation, it works perfectly
Exactly what I am searching for




Sandro








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