On Oct 13 21:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 13 21:16, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > [...] > > > Below is a patch which works for me, though I'm not sure if it's > > > complete enough to catch all cases. There's code for OS2 in os_unix.c > > > which I reused, plus a new definition in mch_isFullName for the absolute > > > path on Cygwin. > > > > > > I'd be grateful if the below or a more feasible patch which solves the > > > above problem, could be applied to vim. > > > > I think this fixes only one specific problem. When Vim is compiled for > > Unix it does not recognize DOS paths. And that matters in many places > > (e.g., search for CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME and BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME). > > Also behavior of a backslash in a file name changes. Making Vim for > > Unix handle these things will be an awful lot of work... > > True enough. But maybe fixing these problems as they turn up might > be a helpful approach? Anyway, what's noticable here is the fact > that this is a new problem in vim 7. It wasn't present in vim 6.4 > so it is a regression.
Interesting enough it works in 6.4 without doing anything similar to my patch does to os_unix.c. What's different in swap file handling between 6.4 and 7.0 so that it works in the former but doesn;t in the latter? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
