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Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:19:18 -0700
From: Jim Kleckner <jek_subs AT kleckner DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Does cygstart always expand arguments?
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Jim Kleckner wrote:
...
> FYI, the following works for me:
> 
> cygstart gvim '"file with spaces.txt"' '"another file with spaces.txt"'

Yep, you did it, thanks!  A gold star for you, though
definitely not as valuable as cgf's.

Another case of peeling off layers of
"quoting the quotes".  There must be some
DOS shell buried in there as part of the
invocation or something.

If anyone cares, here is a small bash
snippet that will create either a shell
alias or a function to figure out which
version of gvim/vim/vimx/vi is available
to use.

Note the use of quotes as supplied by
Igor on the line with cygpath.

I'm sure someone out there can simplify
the for loop.

=== bash snippet to determine vim/vi

# To use this type:
# v [list of files to edit]

alias which="type -path"
if [ "$OSTYPE" != "cygwin" ] ; then
     if [ "`which vimx`" != "" ] ; then
         alias v=vimx
     elif [ "`which vim`" != "" ] ; then
         alias v=vim
     else
         alias v=vi
     fi
else
     if [ "`which gvim`" != "" ] ; then
         function v() {
            unset _fs
            _i=0
            for _f in "$@"; do
                _fs[$_i]='"'`cygpath -m "$_f"`'"'
                let _i=$_i+1
            done
            cygstart gvim.exe ${_fs[@]}
         }
     elif [ "`which vimx`" != "" ] ; then
         alias v=vimx
     elif [ "`which vim`" != "" ] ; then
         alias v=vim
     else
         alias v=vi
     fi
fi


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