Andrey Repin <anrdaemon <at> yandex.ru> writes: >>>> My Moto G connects to the laptop via USB, and can be seen using >>>> Windows Explorer. Is there a way to make it visible as a Unix >>>> path? /cygdrive does not show it. >>> >>> Are you including the drive letter? If it’s the G: drive in >>> Windows Explorer, you need to say something like “ls /cygdrive/g”, >>> not “ls /cygdrive”. >>> >>> If it isn’t appearing as a drive letter in Windows, they’re >>> probably using some kind of Explorer shell extension, which would >>> mean the device isn’t visible through normal Windows mechanisms, >>> hence not visible to Cygwin. >> >> It doesn't have a drive letter in Windows Explorer. The name is >> simply "Moto G". When I "ls /cygdrive", I see on the c-drive. I >> think that the handset's visibility to Windows Explorer is based on >> MTP USB, but that's just something I'm learning about right now. > >There's no MTP adapter for Cygwin. You're welcome to write one, >though.
I would consider it if my background was somewhat in the area of app development, but it's more along the lines of data analysis, e.g, Matlab, Excel. Why would such a person want to access the handset via a unix path? Android doesn't have a native Notes app, and if I simply use its text editor, that's one more app I can avoid installing. But I would want to sync it with the laptop copy of the text files via vimdiff and diff. I guess one option may be to simply copy the folder containing the text files to Windows, then use diff/vimdiff, then copy it back.
