On 27/05/09 16:42, Ben Fritz wrote:
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> On May 27, 1:45 am, Markus Heidelberg<[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> I didn't mean the built-in interpreter of cmd.exe when I talked about
>> shell, but sh.exe or bash.exe or something.
>>
>
> Sorry, my mistake. Somehow I missed the part where we were talking
> about cygwin in this thread. I tend to assume that "shell" in the
> Windows world means the built in one unless told otherwise.
>
>>> Is this not a common occurrence? I have yet to see a non-
>>> contrived case where the gvim.bat and vim.bat wrappers are not
>>> sufficient.
>>
>> I thought I was clear enough with my non-contrived real world case from
>> the previous mail.
>
> Yes, I meant to say "from the shell". I saw that vimdiff.bat wasn't
> working for your git diff/merge tool, but I was having problems with
> vimdiff.bat anyway when I tested at home, so I couldn't speak to that
> tool. At work, it seems to be installed just fine.
>
> Regardless, I was under the impression that Tony was saying gvim.bat
> and vim.bat wouldn't work in general. I understand now that he meant
> in a Unix-style shell, which is certainly the case.
In fact, I don't remember what problems I had, but I _do_ remember that
I had some, even in cmd.exe, until I noticed that bat wrappers existed
and made sure they were never invoked. OTOH, invoking Windows-native
vim.exe or gvim.exe from cmd.exe, or Cygwin vim.exe from Cygwin bash,
always worked the way I expected them to work (but I didn't mess around
with the -f switch which "may" be the /raison d'être/ of these
wrappers). Nowadays, I've scrapped Windows in favour of Linux (where all
the possible "Vim names" except vi are softlinks to my home-compiled
/usr/local/bin/vim binary), and I'm all the happier for the change, but
YMMV.
Best regards,
Tony.
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dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive
man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the
air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first
primitive umpire.
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