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Unable to open files on Windows

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
cli, release

Research direction

Start by checking how the GitHub master branch delegates to opener and compare that behavior with the current NPM release on Windows. Review the linked Windows cause and the package release path. Done means the Windows file-opening issue is addressed in the published NPM version.

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Description

windows

The current version on NPM doesn't work on Windows due to: http://superuser.com/a/239572 This is handled in opener, to which master on GitHub delegates. Could we get a new NPM release? 😸

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
11
Forks
3
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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