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lhmouse / nano-win

GNU nano text editor for Windows [WARNING: The master branch is constantly rebased and force-pushed so don't expect it to be steady!! -end WARNING]
https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/
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PowerShell sometimes crashes when starting nano #16

Closed slugrustle closed 4 years ago

slugrustle commented 4 years ago

I "installed" nano-win_9232_v5.2-4-ge724fdcb on Windows 10 Pro 19041.572 by unzipping it, copying the nano-win_9232_v5.2-4-ge724fdcb directory to C:\Program Files\, removing the i686-w64-mingw32 subdirectory (keeping x86_64-w64-mingw32), and adding C:\Users\user\Downloads\nano-win_9232_v5.2-4-ge724fdcb\x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin to the system Path environment variable.

If I run "nano.exe" or "nano" from powershell 5.1.19041.546 in my user (non-admin account) home directory, sometimes nano runs just fine, and sometimes PowerShell crashes before I can see the nano "screen" come up. Try repeatedly running nano and exiting to reproduce the issue. If it helps any, I typically run PowerShell maximized on a 1920x1080 monitor.

I do not experience the same issue when running nano from the Command Prompt.

slugrustle commented 4 years ago

Aha, it turns out that a nano.exe claiming to be nano version 2.7.5 was in C:\Windows\System32. Once I removed that executable, this problem went away. It must have been two executables with the same name in different places in the Path causing trouble.

lhmouse commented 4 years ago

Looks like there was a bug in your 2.7.5. nano is statically linked against 3rd-party libraries and should not suffer from such problems.