Hi, As a regular non-privileged user, I'm able to edit text files using vi/vim/nano when inside the command prompt launched by "cygwin.bat". However, when I launch "cygwin.bat" as an administrator there is no text displayed for files in nano, and the directional keys in vi/vim do not work; on pressing a direction key nothing happens and after about one second the system bell sound is heared.
Through the use of Sysinternals Process Monitor, I think the problem is related to cygwin, running as administor, being unable to create certain files. I've determined that, as administrator, vi/vim is unable to create the necessary temporary swap files it needs in C:\cygwin, and nano is unable to create the necessary .nanorc file it needs in c:\cygwin. I can provide the output from Process Monitor if required. Does anyone know how I can resolve texting editing in cygwin 1.7.1 when it is run with administrator privileges, or how I can determine why my current setup is broken? Please let me know what additional info I can give. Thanks, Asim -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
