Nano fails to open file "~/.bashrc".

Oliver Schoede oliver.schode@online.de
Sat Mar 4 09:55:53 GMT 2023


On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 10:53:42 -0500
Eliot Moss via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
>- Drop that nano and install the Cygwin one;
>- Invoke that nano with a Windows path, perhaps like this:
>
>nano $(cygpath -wa ~/.bashrc)
>

Another option is to tinker with your PATH, so that Cygwin's binaries
are found before others. I've been doing this in my .profile for years,
for similar reasons. It's a hack I admit, don't remember ever running
into problems though.

Greetings,
Oliver


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