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On 1/11/12 10:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>
>>      mintty -e tail -f foo&
>>
>> The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent
>> with those I write for other terminals.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Gary
>>
> I am using cygwin 1.7.9-1 per cygcheck.
>=20
> I tried using mintty and it looks better than the default window the
> launching cygwin puts up. But I noticed that if I "vim" a file,
> nothing happens. When I control-C out, I can see that actually
> something did happen as there is a ".whatever.swp" file created. For
> the heck of it, I tried under an x shell (?hope I have my terminology
> right?) via "startxwin &" and had the same vim experience (no file
> opening but a swp file left).

Are you using Cygwin vim or a native win32 vim? Win32 console programs
generally aren't happy in mintty, and you should use their Cygwin
equivalents.


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