Re: [Mingw-msys] CVSEDITOR var doesnt work

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

>From: Earnie Boyd <ear...@ya...>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>CVSEDITOR variable doesn't work, i have set it to notepad.exe with:
>>>export CVSEDITOR=notepad.exe
>>>i try to commit something it doesnt come up and i get
>>>the following error:
>>>
>>>cvs.exe commit: warning: editor session failed: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>it did work in msys 1.0.7 ... not in 1.0.8 though....
>>
>>
>>This is probably because 1.0.8 still translates "\" to "/" in the PATH
>>environment variable (mine at least) even though it works properly for any
>>other environment variable or command line argument. This may have 
>>something
>>to do with the fact that MSYS doesn't translate a path list at all if it 
>>is
>>longer than approximately 255 characters (?!).
>>
>
>Note, Luke, no \ or / appear in ``export CVSEDITOR=notepad.exe''.  There is 
>no translation of path in this case.  Apparently, Nehal just needs to add 
>c:\windows to is Win32 PATH variable.
[snip]
>
>Earnie.

Yes, but if PATH is in fact translated to forward slashes as it seems to be 
for me, then CVS and/or Windows might not be able to use PATH to find 
notepad.exe (especially on Win98/ME). Wasn't this one reason that you 
reverted the behaviour of converting \ to / in path lists?

Luke


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