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Ramsay Jones wrote:
> I would rather define a script; it can then be used independently of git.

So your suggestion is to have git-sh-setup.sh account for MinGW, which is its
current state, but not account for Cygwin?

> Personally, I don't have this specific problem because I use (the cygwin
> version of) vim. (does anybody actually use notepad?)

If you had read carefully, you would have noticed that I mentioned more than
notepad. As well Notepad2, and Notepad++, etc.


> I mostly, but not exclusively, use cygwin tools on cygwin. For example I
> use win32 versions of doxygen, ghostscript, tex (MikTex 2.7), graphviz etc.
> However, the makefiles which drive those tools use relative paths ...

This convo is not about what tools _you_ use, but about the current
incompatibility with several native windows text editors.