Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:50:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gvimdiff fails on network drive In-Reply-To: <3DB98C80.86B36F8C@doe.carleton.ca> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using cygwin-1.3.12-4 on WinME. I'm > using gvim 6.0 to diff a pair of files residing > on a mounted network drive i.e. /SomeUser > is a mount pointing to \\RemoteSunBox\SomeUser. > Read/write access to /SomeUser is no problem. > Using "gvim -d" on localfiles is no problem. > But using "gvim -d" on files residing on /SomeUser > generates the error E97 (can't create diff files). > > I thought it might be a path name problem, > though both invocations would use unix > style path names. But just to see, I tried > putting this in _vimrc (courtesy Machitani-san): > > > if has("unix") > > set shell=/bin/bash > > elseif has("win32") > > " set shell=c:/cygwin/bin/bash > > set shell=c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe > > set shellcmdflag=-c > > set shellpipe=2>&1\|\ tee > > set shellslash > > endif > > But the problem persisted. Just as a note, > my gvim is invoked by the bash function > > { > ( unset SHELL; > /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim60/gvim $* ) & > } > > because gvim's diff *never* worked prior > to the "unset SHELL". > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Fred gvim is not a Cygwin application, and thus does not understand Cygwin mounts or unix-style paths. Try changing your gvim function as suggested in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00179.html and see if it helps. BTW, this came up as one of the first matches in a search for "gvim" on this mailing list (October archive). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/