Thanks everyone for the quick solution. I had seen the "windows console" instructions online but had initially avoided it, thinking it would set up some kind of hybrid DOS/bash prompt window. I'll give it a try.
Regards, Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Blischak" <[email protected]> To: "Steve Haddock" <[email protected]> Cc: "Software Carpentry Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:15:24 AM Subject: Re: [Discuss] Nano with git bash Hi Steve, On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Steve Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to set up a new postdoc with git bash (rather than MSYS2 > directly) and we are having trouble with nano on Windows 7 (?or 8). Was there > a resolution to the similar discussion a month ago? > We did an install and can do `nano -h` but get a "Redirection not supported" > error otherwise. Searching for that error shows very old posts with broken > links. The resolution to the problem has been merged into the default setup instructions for workshops. It worked well for the recent workshop I ran. Here's the link to the generic workshop template site: http://swcarpentry.github.io/workshop-template/#setup John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
