From: john DOT cook AT kla-tencor DOT com (John Cook) Subject: help using Vim with gnuwin32 tools? 24 Oct 1997 17:49:07 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'gnuwin32'" Hi. What do I need to do to get Vim working with the gnuwin32 toolchain (e.g., bash)? I saw a lot of talk about this in the mailing list archives of several months ago, but nothing recently. There are some defined(__CYGWIN32__) in the source code (I have vim-5.0p) so it appears that at least some of the gnuwin32-specific patches circulating back then have made it into Vim, but make ran into problems. I have the stock b18 version of the cdk. Do I need Sergey Okhapin's newer version of cygwin.dll or newer versions of anything else? The 'win32 console' version of Vim works mostly OK, but its path handling converts / to \, so (for example) 'vi /.bashrc' brings up an empty file unless I happen to be in a directory on the root drive. Also, I'd like to be able to use the editor-dependent commands of sdiff with Vim (I set the EDITOR variable to point to Vim, but the 'eb' command in sdiff brings up an empty file). I know nearly nothing of termcap and ncurses (sorry!), so if I need to acquire and build these, please point me to useable sources. (I do have TERM=linux.) Thanks, John - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".