Re: [ jEdit-users ] Launching jedit from cygwin.

[Dirk M. <dmo...@gm...>]

> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Locke wrote:
> This does raise an interetsing point about using Cygwin, though. Does
> Cygwin store its root in a system envrionment variable or someplace a
> program outside of Cygwin could access it? If not, we could require users
> of Cygwin to setup a CYGWIN_ROOT environment variable and then specially
> interpret paths starting with a "/" so that they go to
> %CYWIN_ROOT%\path\to\file
> 
> Thoughts?

It's not that easy. The path could start with "/", but it could be a Cygwin
mount, e.g. /d/WINDOWS/file.txt. Unless you link the cygwin.dll to
jEditOpener and use some of the Cygwin functions, there will be no easy way to map
Cygwin paths to Windoze paths. No, I don't know which functions. 

That's a real problem here: we want to use Cygwin bash's shell expansion,
but cannot use it with absolute paths. Looks like either jEditOpener has to do
the shell expansion itself, or we forget that feature.

Dirk.


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