[vox-tech] using windows pathnames in cygwin

[Foo Lim]

On 1/31/06, Peter Jay Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:
>
> In cygwin, I'd like to type "vi /etc/profile" and have gvim come up,
> editing
> /etc/profile without necessarily running X.  That means I need to rely on
> a
> win32 installation of gvim, rather than the gvim that comes with cygwin.
>
> I've installed win32 gvim in C:\Program Files\vim, but when I do:
>
>    /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Vim/vim64/gvim.exe /etc/profile
>
> gvim comes up with:
>
>    "Cannot open swap file for \etc\profile", recovery impossible
>
> and I find myself editing an empty file.  Eventually, I'd like to make
> "/usr/bin/vi" an alias for "/cygdrive/c/Program Fiels/Vim/vim64/gvim.exe".
>
> Is there a way to use win32 gvim from within cygwin and have the pathnames
> work out?


Hi Pete,

When I installed gvim, I also installed the bat files for running from the
command line.  It's an option when installing gvim.  It puts batch files in
the Windows directory, so you can merely run:

gvim.bat file

I have successfully aliased vi to /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/gvim.bat, & it works.

Foo
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