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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:56:11 +0100
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: Luke Bakken <luke_bakken AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re[2]: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter
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Thanks, Luke!

This explains it all! I'm sorry for the false alarm :(

Monday, March 04, 2002, 5:19:29 PM, you wrote:

LB> /bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character.  It's a rather
LB> limited shell.

LB> try this:

LB> :set shell=/bin/bash

LB> Luke

LB> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

>> Hey, there! :)
>>
>> I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth
>> reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from
>> vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using
>> the tilde character fails:
>>
>> sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory
>>
>> shell returned 1
>>
>> Hit ENTER or type command to continue


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