# Re: default editor

- From: Eric Sunshine \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-02-12 06:04:21 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7876343
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7875306/t.md

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:15 AM M Douglas McIlroy
[ref] wrote:
> Many thanks for so thoroughly exploring my query.

You are very welcome.

> I have long lived with the limitations of invoking Windows apps from
> Cygwin. Fortuitously I could work around them without resorting to
> "command prompt", though clearly that isn't always possible. And you
> have shed light on the difficulty of the opposite: invoking Cygwin
> apps from Windows.

Were you able to resolve the situation (for instance, by staying
entirely within the Cygwin ecosystem for `git` and `ed`)?
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