Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:50:17 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right Message-ID: <20020422095017.A19421@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > If you run vim with "c:\temp\foo" it complains > > E303: Unable to open swap file for "c:\temp\foo", recovery impossible > > However, it then manages to correctly write the file out to the indicated > path. Looking at strace shows it trying to open a file named > /tmp/c:\temp\foo.swp; it thinks the whole path is a relative name in the > current directory. > > This is a problem if you set $EDITOR to vim and then have non-Cygwin > programs invoke vim. Use the cygpath utility then. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/