On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Mun <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu on my PC via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
> and of course it only comes with vim (not gvim). However, I've also
> installed gvim80. I can launch gvim from within the WSL Bash window
> but it doesn't see my WSL files.
>
> Web searches state it's not a good idea to try to access WSL files
> from Windows proper. I just thought I'd ask this community if anyone
> has come up with a good solution to use gvim from within WSL.
>
If I understand correctly, the program that starts when you type gvim in
WSL (as you have it configured currently) is the Windows GVim; therefore I
believe you haven't installed gvim in the Linux part (via vim-gnome or
vim-gtk or similar). If you do install a Linux gvim package, it will give
you a GUI running on X, which would require you to run an X server (e.g.
Xming or VcXsrv) on Windows as well. That would give you access to the
Linux files, and to Windows-side files through /mnt/c and the like. Note
that I'm not sure what kinds of caveats exist for accessing /mnt/c from
Linux.
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Eric Christopherson
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