Sorry, I forgot to add the problem is also present when using gvim (MS-
Windows 32-bit GUI version).

On Nov 16, 1:03 am, bgold12 <[email protected]> wrote:
> I recently added a couple of directories to my path and then found
> that the command-line shell command (i.e. ":!ls") stopped working.
> More specifically, the shell didn't seem to be able to find any of my
> cygwin or otherwise utilities. I have been able to identify that when
> my $PATH is 259 characters or less in length, there is no problem, but
> when I add that 260th character, suddenly the $PATH variable becomes
> empty in the spawned shell. In other words, when I run the command ":!
> echo $PATH", I see a blank line (only when $PATH is 260 characters or
> greater).
>
> This problem only seems to be present when I use the MS-Windows 32-bit
> console version of vim with bash as my shell. I'm currently using the
> following settings:
>
> set shell=/bin/bash
> set shellcmdflag=-c
> set shellslash
> set shellredir=>%s\ 2>&1
>
> This seems like a bug to me, but correct me if I'm wrong.
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