On 2009-03-07, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> However, what's wrong with running native-Windows
> versions of Vim and gvim, such as those from
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866&package_id=39721
> ? (Click the clipboard-like icon to see what was compiled-in.)
The advantages to using Cygwin's vim rather than Windows' vim (not
gvim) is that Cygwin terminals such as rxvt are more versatile than
the Windows console (although you can get third-party Windows
consoles, too) and that from Cygwin's vim you have access to a
Unix-like environment any time vim needs the OS or a shell.
I tried for a while to use Windows' gvim with Cygwin's shell but
found too many cases where it just didn't work quite right. For
example, some Cygwin commands will return the full path names of
files such as
/usr/local/src/foo
/cygdrive/c/bar
and native-Windows gvim can't find them.
Regards,
Gary
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