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Re: default editor

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Feb 12, 2021, 06:03 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:15 AM M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> Many thanks for so thoroughly exploring my query.
You are very welcome.
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> 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.

Were you able to resolve the situation (for instance, by staying entirely within the Cygwin ecosystem for `git` and `ed`)?

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  2. brian m. carlsonFeb 7, 2021
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  4. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2021
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  6. Eric SunshineFeb 7, 2021
  7. Adam DinwoodieFeb 8, 2021
  8. M Douglas McIlroyFeb 11, 2021
  9. Eric SunshineFeb 12, 2021

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