micro-editor / micro-editor/micro

Suggestion: add instructions of installation on README.md for Cygwin

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Description

Micro is an amazing text editor and it works really well on my personal notebook (Debian - as snap) and also on my professional notebook (Windows). In Windows it was installed with Chocolatey, as described on README.md without any issue. However, when using it over Cygwin, on the same computer, it only works opening files in the current path. Micro on Windows does not natively support Cygwin’s unix-style paths (/cygdrive/*). When passed an absolute Cygwin path as an argument, an empty new file is displayed in place.

This can be solved by creating a wrapper, adding the following function to .bash_profile (for BASH shell) and/or .zprofile (for ZSH shell):

micro()
{
local index
local args=("$@")
for index in $(seq 0 ${#args[@]}) ; do
case "${args[index]}" in
-*) continue;;
*) [ -e "${args[index]}" ] && args[index]="$(cygpath --windows "${args[index]}")";;
esac
done
command micro "${args[@]}"
}

Please, add this information to README.md.

Thanks in advance.

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Review the installation section of README.md and the reported Cygwin behavior, including the .bash_profile and .zprofile context. Ensure the documented guidance explains how Cygwin paths are handled and is clear for both Bash and Zsh users; verify the README wording and formatting before submitting.

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Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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