Hi Alessandro and Eric, Thanks for your feedback. Since I'm familiar with Cygwin, I've decided to go ahead and install that on my laptop.
Regards, -- Mun On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Eric Christopherson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Eric Christopherson > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
