Hi,

I'm testing out darcs on cygwin but I've come across a couple of
problems.  I think they're probably unrelated.

1) When recording a patch, darcs can't find the editor on my system
   I'm not sure why.  Here are some diagnostics.

$ echo $EDITOR
/usr/bin/vi
$
$ ls /usr/bin/vi
/usr/bin/vi    

...so then I tried,

$ darcs record
hunk ./README 1
+
+
Shall I record this patch? (1/?) [ynWsfqadjkc], or ? for help: y

What is the patch name? rev_2
Do you want to add a long comment? [yn] y

realdarcs.exe: vi: runProcess: does not exist (No such file or
directory)

A workaround is to use the --logfile option

2) Notice in the "Shall I record ..." above that it doesn't know
how many patches there are going to be.  On my Linux machine at
home this would say (1/1).

Please see this issue:

http://otherbugs.darcs.net//Ticket/Display.html?id=325

That web page contains an explanation of your current problem ("vi does not
exist") and how to work-around that and then a description of the next problem
that you will hit.

As for the "how many patches", in the newer versions of darcs you have to hit
"c" to get that information.

Hey Zooko, can you please have a look at this?
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00257.html

If I understand correctly, the core issues is that darcs (being built with ghc)
is not Cygwin-aware.  However, if you export the PATH, Cygwin will take special
notice of it and translate it to the Windows environment equivalent, cygpathed
and all.  

Could you please add the export PATH line to the wrapper and report back?

[ It's still not-our-bug ;-) ]

I can't reproduce this with Zooko's prepackaged 1.0.7 darcs.  Darcs
under Cygwin seems to find my text editor without any problems.

I am going to just resolve this; please reply if you have any
objections.