Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-13 Thread skeept
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:28:52 AM UTC-5, skeept wrote: gt; is it possible for you to turn off the HTML formatting in whatever client you#39;re using? It isn#39;t translating properly on the Google Groups interface. I don#39;t know what it looks like in an email. Sorry about that, I am

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-13 Thread Ben Fritz
On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:16:44 AM UTC-5, skeept wrote: what I would like to have is if has(quot;win32quot;) and shell.find(#39;bash#39;) gt;= 0 quot;let $TMP = #39;c:\\htemp\\tmp#39; set shell=C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe quot;set shellxquote=( endif my question now is how do

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-13 Thread skeept
On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:13:22 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:16:44 AM UTC-5, skeept wrote: gt; gt; what I would like to have is gt; if has(amp;quot;win32amp;quot;) and shell.find(amp;#39;bashamp;#39;) amp;gt;= 0 gt; amp;quot;let $TMP =

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-12 Thread skeept
is it possible for you to turn off the HTML formatting in whatever client you're using? It isn't translating properly on the Google Groups interface. I don't know what it looks like in an email. Sorry about that, I am just using the page in google groups to write the message, google groups

Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread skeept
Hi, I am trying to start vimdiff from a cygwin shell but it is not working properly. I start it with gvimdiff.bat file1 file2 and the error messages I get is: E810: Cannot read or write temp files E97: Cannot create diffs I tried setting different values for the TMP variable in _vimrc,

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Wed, July 11, 2012 17:01, skeept wrote: Hi, I am trying to start vimdiff from a cygwin shell but it is not working properly. I start it with gvimdiff.bat file1 file2 and the error messages I get is: E810: Cannot read or write temp files E97: Cannot create diffs I tried setting

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread skeept
Generally, mixing Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs always causes trouble. In your case, I suspect, Vim fails to create temporary files for the diff. So please show us the output of :echo tempname() from Cygwin vim and gvim. Is this directory accessible from gvim/Cygwin vim (consider

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread Ben Fritz
On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:31:32 AM UTC-5, skeept wrote: gt; Generally, mixing Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs always causes trouble. gt; gt; In your case, I suspect, Vim fails to create temporary files for the diff. gt; So please show us the output of :echo tempname() from Cygwin vim

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread xxx
On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:49:22 PM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:31:32 AM UTC-5, skeept wrote: gt; amp;gt; Generally, mixing Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs always causes trouble. gt; amp;gt; gt; amp;gt; In your case, I suspect, Vim fails to create temporary

Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

2012-07-11 Thread Ben Fritz
Is it possible for you to turn off the HTML formatting in whatever client you're using? It isn't translating properly on the Google Groups interface. I don't know what it looks like in an email. On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:50:34 PM UTC-5, xxx wrote: I am in cygwin and trying to use windows