Re: Any cygwin users out there?

[Søren Hauberg]

Thanks for the feedback. Could you try without the " characters? That is

  edit('editor', 'C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe `cygpath -wa 
%s`')

and
  edit('editor', 'C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe $(cygpath -wa 
%s)')

It would be of great help,
Søren


Aquil H. Abdullah skrev:
> I am running octave 2.1.73 under under cygwin. Here are the results of 
> your test.  When I just typed edit the Notepad editor started.
>
> octave:1> edit('editor', '"C:/Windows/Notepad.exe `cygpath -wa %s`"')
> octave:2> edit foo.m
> error: edit: could not create /home/aha/octave/foo.m
> error: evaluating if command near line 287, column 3
> error: called from `edit' in file 
> `/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-forge/miscellaneous/edit.m'
> octave:2> edit
> sh: line 0: cd: /home/aha/octave: No such file or directory
> Usage: cygpath (-d|-m|-u|-w|-t TYPE) [-f FILE] [OPTION]... NAME...
>        cygpath [-c HANDLE]
>        cygpath [-ADHPSW]
> Convert Unix and Windows format paths, or output system path information
>
> Output type options:
>   -d, --dos             print DOS (short) form of NAMEs (C:\PROGRA~1\)
>   -m, --mixed           like --windows, but with regular slashes (C:/WINNT)
>   -M, --mode            report on mode of file (binmode or textmode)
>   -u, --unix            (default) print Unix form of NAMEs 
> (/cygdrive/c/winnt)
>   -w, --windows         print Windows form of NAMEs (C:\WINNT)
>   -t, --type TYPE       print TYPE form: 'dos', 'mixed', 'unix', or 
> 'windows'
> Path conversion options:
>   -a, --absolute        output absolute path
>   -l, --long-name       print Windows long form of NAMEs (with -w, -m only)
>   -p, --path            NAME is a PATH list (i.e., '/bin:/usr/bin')
>   -s, --short-name      print DOS (short) form of NAMEs (with -w, -m only)
> System information:
>   -A, --allusers        use `All Users' instead of current user for -D, -P
>   -D, --desktop         output `Desktop' directory and exit
>   -H, --homeroot        output `Profiles' directory (home root) and exit
>   -P, --smprograms      output Start Menu `Programs' directory and exit
>   -S, --sysdir          output system directory and exit
>   -W, --windir          output `Windows' directory and exit
> Try `cygpath --help' for more information.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/3/06, *Søren Hauberg* <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>        I'm looking for a cygwin user who will test do a simple test for me
>     (I don't have easy access to cygwin). The help text for the
>     octave-forge
>     command "edit" tells me that I can use a native Windows editor by typing
>
>     edit('editor', '"C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe `cygpath
>     -wa %s`"')
>
>     Could anybody test if it's possible to write
>
>     edit('editor', '"C:/Program Files/Good Editor/Editor.exe $(cygpath -wa
>     %s)"')
>
>     instead?
>
>     Thanks, Søren
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