Re: default editor
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- M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
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- Feb 11, 2021, 15:15 UTC
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Eric and Adam,
Many thanks for so thoroughly exploring my query. I have long lived with the limitations of invoking Windows apps from Cygwin. Fortuitously I could work around them without resorting to "command prompt", though clearly that isn't always possible. And you have shed light on the difficulty of the opposite: invoking Cygwin apps from Windows.
Doug
On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:03 AM Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 21:59, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote: > > By the way, it's also possible to install Cygwin's Git from the Cygwin > > installer rather than attempting to use the Git provided by the > > Git-For-Windows project. The combination of Cygwin `ed` and Cygwin > > `git` works just fine (in my tests) once you configure `ed` as the Git > > editor either by setting GIT_EDITOR or EDITOR environment variables to > > `ed -l` or by configuring git itself: > > > > git config --global --add core.config 'ed -l' > > > > (You would want to uninstall Git-For-Windows, too, if you have it installed.) > > As the Cygwin Git maintainer, I'd strongly recommend this approach: > either use a Cygwin toolchain or a Git for Windows one, rather than > trying to combine the two. While Cygwin and the Git for Windows > environment share common ancestry, they have substantial differences > arising from the fact that Cygwin generally attempts to provide an > environment that's as close to Unix-like as possible, while Git for > Windows is aiming for compatibility with native Windows applications. > Differences in handling paths and return codes are to be expected. > > I expect it is possible to use a Cygwin editor with Git for Windows, > but I don't think it's an expected use case, and I'm not aware of > anyone else having produced and published documentation of the > configuration and wrapper scripts I imagine you would need to convert > between the two interfaces. > > Adam