Comments on: launching textpad from cygwin http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/ This is a repository for my favorite scripts, regexes, commandlines, utilities, code snippets, tips, and other geeky things that might be useful to someone googling for an obscure solution some day. It's also a place to share my thoughts about companies I've dealt with, my favorite lifehacks, observations of interesting human behavior, clever and/or evil marketing schemes I've run across, and anything else I feel compelled to write about. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:45:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: spugbrap http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-425 spugbrap Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:50:45 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-425 Ack! The function I posted in the comment, above, had a flaw: the 'p' variable never gets reset. Every time the 'tp' function is executed, the string 'p' already contains the values from every previous invocation, because the function keeps appending to p, without ever clearing it. The following works better, and includes debug output that I don't mind seeing every time I run the function: <code>function tp() { echo tp:input:$* unset p for ((at=1; at <= $#; at++)) do p="$p `cygpath -wa ${!at}`" done echo tp:output:$p textpad $p & }</code> Ack! The function I posted in the comment, above, had a flaw: the ‘p’ variable never gets reset. Every time the ‘tp’ function is executed, the string ‘p’ already contains the values from every previous invocation, because the function keeps appending to p, without ever clearing it.

The following works better, and includes debug output that I don’t mind seeing every time I run the function:

function tp()
{
echo tp:input:$*
unset p
for ((at=1; at < = $#; at++))
do
p="$p `cygpath -wa ${!at}`"
done
echo tp:output:$p
textpad $p &
}

]]> By: spugbrap http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-399 spugbrap Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:12:53 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-399 are you threatening me? are you threatening me?

]]> By: ClintJCL http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-398 ClintJCL Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:57:01 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-398 for your bunghole? for your bunghole?

]]> By: spugbrap http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-397 spugbrap Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:08:48 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-397 <p>Woohoo! Thanks to <a href="http://warpedvisions.org/">Bruce</a>, who posted <a href="http://marc.abramowitz.info/archives/2007/08/29/making-cygwin-and-windows-cooperate/#comment-272675">this for loop</a> in a comment on <a href="http://marc.abramowitz.info">Marc Abramowitz's blog</a>, I now have a 'tp' function that supports multiple paths on the command-line:</p> <code>function tp() { for ((at=1; at <= $#; at++)) do p="$p `cygpath -wa ${!at}`" done textpad $p & } </code> Woohoo! Thanks to Bruce, who posted this for loop in a comment on Marc Abramowitz’s blog, I now have a ‘tp’ function that supports multiple paths on the command-line:

function tp()
{
for ((at=1; at < = $#; at++))
do
p="$p `cygpath -wa ${!at}`"
done
textpad $p &
}

]]> By: ClintJCL http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-267 ClintJCL Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:46:58 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-267 Hmm... I've never done a side-by-side comparison.. I just know textpad didn't stick with me, and editplus did. but some of that may have been timing -- 1999(?) vs 2005. Hmm… I’ve never done a side-by-side comparison.. I just know textpad didn’t stick with me, and editplus did. but some of that may have been timing — 1999(?) vs 2005.

]]> By: spugbrap http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-264 spugbrap Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:25:15 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-264 TextPad! TextPad!

]]> By: ClintJCL http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-260 ClintJCL Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:46:40 +0000 http://www.spugbrap.com/blog/2007/04/launching-textpad-from-cygwin/#comment-260 EditPlus! EditPlus!

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