cygnus bugs
Fergus Henderson
fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sun Jul 13 00:28:00 GMT 1997
Tim Newsham <newsham@aloha.net> writes:
>- cygwin does not properly transform command line path names across
> mount points. If I am on drive "D:" and type "vi /tmp/foo",
> I end up editing "D:\tmp\foo" and not "C:\tmp\foo" even though
> "/tmp" is on "C:". (vi is not compiled with cygwin).
> Cygwin should transform the path to "C:\tmp\foo" for the benefit
> of non-cygwin applications.
How can cygwin know which arguments are pathnames and which are
just ordinary strings that should not be transformed in this manner?
Transforming _all_ program arguments in this manner would cause
more problems than it solves.
This has been discussed on this list before. One possibility is
to use a bash function:
vi() { command vi `expand_args "$@"` }
Here `expand_args' is a command that does the appropriate filename
transformation and then echos its arguments.
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