X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <14127895.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 03:22:11 -0800 (PST) From: Finof To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: gvim $ORG where ORG=/cygdrive/w/dir/x.txt expands dir to $dir ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: helpdesk@finofix.nl X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Hi, I use bash on a vista machine wich links to samba on a linux server My scipts are in a bin-map on the linux server environment variable PROGS = /cygdrive/l/progs environment variable ORG = /cygdrive/l/progs/programma.txt command: ls -l $ORG shows: -rw-r--r-- ... /cygdrive/l/dir/programma.txt which is correct command: gvim $ORG does not vi the programma.txt but expands progs to $PROGS why is this and how do I prevent this from happening ?? pjotrb -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gvim-%24ORG-where-ORG%3D-cygdrive-w-dir-x.txt-expands-dir-to-%24dir---tf4935809.html#a14127895 Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/