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

[John G. <jge...@ny...>]

My version of the launcher is using native windows services to do file
expansion on both conventional Windows and UNC paths.  I've tested it
successfully on both, although for UNC I created a share on the host
computer; I haven't tried it over a "real" network.  After I complete
testing of the context menu handler and do some cleanup, I'll post the
source and exectutable.

It's implemented as a COM object with a public launcher interface, so it can
be used inside wscript or from facilities like the Perl OLE32 package.  I
haven't written a command line client yet, but that would be trivial, at
least under native Windows.

The Cygwin API call I think you're looking for can be found here:

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-api/func-cygwin-conv-to-full-win32-p
ath.html

It would be good for the command line client to have an option to flag use
of POSIX file paths.

John



> -----Original Message-----
> From: jed...@li...
> [mailto:jed...@li...]On Behalf Of Dirk
> Moebius
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:30 AM
> To: jed...@li...
> Subject: Re: [ jEdit-users ] Launching jedit from cygwin.
>
>
> > 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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