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: > > > 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 > Windows can't > > > cope with paths starting with / and Cygwin Vim > can't handle Windows paths)? > > > > > > regards, > > > Christian > > > > Hi Christian, > > > > the output for echo tempname() in gvim/windows is: > > c:\htemp\tmp\VIBFED5.tmp > > > > while the output for gvim/windows started from cygwin is: > > c:/htemp/tmp/VIA693A.tmp > > > > I use > > if has("win32") > > let $TMP = 'c:\\htemp\\tmp' > > endif > > > > to set the name of the variable but when started from cygwin it ends up > with the separators in the oposite direction /. > > > > Is it possible to set it in such a way that it would work? > > > > Thanks! > > Forward vs. backward slashes shouldn't matter, most Windows apps can > handle both, cygwin apps can definitely handle forward slash, and a native > Windows Vim can handle both. > > Are you trying to access "c:/htemp/tmp" from a cygwin Vim, rather > than a native Windows Vim? I don't use cygwin much (and never use Vim in > cygwin) but apps I do use in cygwin don't understand C:/ paths, they use > /cygdrive/c. > > You said you were launching from cygwin with "gvimdiff.bat", is > this actually true? Again, I don't use cygwin very often, but I know .bat > files are scripts for the Windows cmd.exe shell, not for the cygwin shell, > which uses bash or another unix shell. But maybe there is special handling > built in to let it run cmd.exe scripts.
I am in cygwin and trying to use windows native gvim (I don't even have gvim in cygwin, just vim). I am using gvimdiff.bat to launch gvim with the files. Like I said before the problem would be around the fact that any shell command started from the gvim instance launched from cygwin gives the error /bin/bash -c "diff -v" The system cannot find the path specified. sheell returned 1 which means it is trying to use the bash to run these commands when it maybe should run cmd, but I don't know how to fix this. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
