X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andy Subject: Shelling out to cygwin bash from Windows vim Options =?utf-8?b?CQ==?= Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 00:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 20 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) 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 This problem dogged me for many years, and I finally hunkered down to chase it down. Here is the solution that I found works for me: "set shell=c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ -i "Won't always find ~/.bashrc cuz depending on how vim is launched, "~ doesn't always resolve to c:/cygwin/home/$USERNAME "let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ --rcfile c:\cygwin\home\' . " \ $USERNAME . '\.bashrc' "Backslashes are hated by bash. Also needs -i to ensure bash is "interactive so that .bashrc is sourced let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --rcfile c:/cygwin/home/' . \ $USERNAME . '/.bashrc -i' " Depending on how vim is launched, c:/cygwin/home/$USERNAME " will sometimes be equivalent to ~. If so, then it will be " replaced by ~ in &shell. Thanks to all those who helped on the unix, bash, cygwin, and vim forums. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple