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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.7 - Odd behaviour with vim
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On Feb 10 16:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 10 10:17, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> > > Uh, that explains it.  The full message is
> > >
> > >  MS-DOS style path detected: %s
> > >  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: %s
> > >  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
> > >  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
> > >  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames\n");
> > >
> > > This message is only generated once per session and can be switched
> > > off entirely using the CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting.
> > > [...]
> > In vim I'm executing:
> > 
> > :e /cygdrive/c/source/emerge/trunk/Source/emergeLib/main.cpp
> > 
> > Could it be related to using /cygdive?
> 
> I don't know.  I can't reproduce this.  What I do is
> 
> - Start Menu -> Run -> mintty bash
> - ./vim
> - :e /cygdrive/c/autoexec.bat
> 
> Nothing happens.  If you have a chance to debug this it might help
> to find out why you see this message.

On second thought, is it possible that you're using a native vim as well
and so maybe have a vim rc file with DOS paths in it?  Or an environment
variable containing a DOS path which is referred by both vims, as, say,
$VIM or $VIMRUNTIME?


Corinna

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