Neil Mitchell wrote:
>> I just copied what Hugs does, or at least I thought I did - does
>> Hugs do ShellExecute?
>
> No, Hugs does something thats not very clever, i.e. spawning notepad.
> I've never used Hugs' :edit command on Windows. WinHugs on the other
> hand has a clever set of rules which launches using ShellExecute if
> that seems sensible, finds good editors (TextPad, Vim, Emacs etc) and
> launches using them and then if all else fails drops down to Notepad.
>
> It would be nice if GHC had the same kind of logic, but thats quite a
> lot of work. You are welcome to share the logic of WinHugs, but thats
> written in C.
I'm happy to be not very clever for now. You can always set your editor
to WordPad or something else using ":set editor" or by setting the
EDITOR environment variable.
Cheers,
Simon
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