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-#hmmm: moved from functions.sh; does that hose everything up?
-
# defines a variable within the feisty meow environment and remembers that
# this is a new or modified definition. if the feisty meow codebase is
# unloaded, then so are all the variables that were defined.
return 0
}
+ # switches from an X:/ form to a /cygdrive/X/path form. this is only useful
+ # for the cygwin environment currently.
+ # defined here rather than in functions.sh since we need it when setting variables
+ # and cannot count on load order during a fresh startup in some circumstances.
+ function dos_to_unix_path() {
+ # we always remove dos slashes in favor of forward slashes.
+#old: echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z]\):\/\(.*\)/\/\1\/\2/'
+ echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z]\):\/\(.*\)/\/cygdrive\/\1\/\2/'
+ }
+
+
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mkdir -p "$FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED_STORE"
fi
# set up our effluent outsourcing valves.
- if [ -z "$TEMPORARIES_PILE" ]; then
- define_yeti_variable TEMPORARIES_PILE="$FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED_STORE/temporaries"
- fi
+ define_yeti_variable TEMPORARIES_PILE="$FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED_STORE/temporaries"
if [ ! -d "$TEMPORARIES_PILE" ]; then
mkdir -p "$TEMPORARIES_PILE"
fi
# add to the PATH variables used for locating applications. this step is taken after any
# potential overrides from the user.
- define_yeti_variable PATH="$(dos_to_unix_path $FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK):$PATH:$(find /usr/local/games -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo -n {}: ';' 2>/dev/null)/sbin"
+#old: define_yeti_variable PATH="$(dos_to_unix_path $FEISTY_MEOW_LOADING_DOCK):$PATH:$(find /usr/local/games -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo -n {}: ';' 2>/dev/null)/sbin"
+ define_yeti_variable PATH="$PATH:$(find /usr/local/games -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo -n {}: ';' 2>/dev/null)/sbin"
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# a late breaking action is to set the editor, if we can.
# we will fallback to whatever we can find on the host.
export EDITOR
-if [ ! -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
- # only try to add bluefish, a gui editor, if there is an X display for it.
- if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
- EDITOR="$(which bluefish)"
- fi
-fi
+# note: the editors for revision control must wait while the document is
+# edited, so gvim and others that launch a separate x window are not
+# going to work well unless they can be prevented from forking the process
+# off.
if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
EDITOR="$(which gvim)"
if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
EDITOR="$(which vi)"
fi
-##
+if [ -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
+ EDITOR="$(which emacs)"
+fi
+####
# out of ideas about editors at this point.
-##
-# set the VISUAL variable from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
+####
+# set the VISUAL and other variables from EDITOR if we found an editor to use.
if [ ! -z "$EDITOR" ]; then
VISUAL="$EDITOR"
+
+ export GIT_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
+ export SVN_EDITOR="$EDITOR"
fi
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