Accessing notepad++ from cygwin bash

Question

So when I am writing code, I use notepad++ and when I am done, I copy-paste it to plain old notepad because I use Cygwin and notepad is the only text editor that I know how to access from the shell. Could someone teach me how to go from the prompt directly to N++?

Answer 1

To launch notepad++.exe with the shell path to the file converted to a proper windows path, you may use the following script:

#!/bin/bash
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe `cygpath.exe -w "$*"`

The path to notepad++.exe may vary.

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