From 95d79b7cbe6c06d7610e1c23ec3efa980ef1426b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zac Koch <zackoch@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 13:47:33 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix- windows: add shell: true for spawnSync to fix EINVAL
 with .cmd editors (#18408)

---
 packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/text-buffer.ts | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/text-buffer.ts b/packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/text-buffer.ts
index ecc7e473e3..9366aa0201 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/text-buffer.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/components/shared/text-buffer.ts
@@ -3087,6 +3087,7 @@ export function useTextBuffer({
       setRawMode?.(false);
       const { status, error } = spawnSync(command, args, {
         stdio: 'inherit',
+        shell: process.platform === 'win32',
       });
       if (error) throw error;
       if (typeof status === 'number' && status !== 0)