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From: geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject: Re: GVIM
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:12:42 -0500
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gene wrote:

> Crescioli, Phil <Phil.Crescioli <at> gd-ais.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hello all,
>>Why is only VIM and not GVIM included with the Cygwin package?
>>I'd love to use GVIM straight from a Cygwin install.
>>Phil Crescioli
>>Phil.Crescioli <at> gd-ais.com
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I think it is because gvim for unix requires X11 while vim does not. 
> I use and installed the gvim for windows and run it from with rxvt terminals in
> cygwin and it works fine. The only problem I had was that it would not orginally
> accept unix style pathnames (forward slashes). I had to put in an add on
> packaage to get the pathnames to work right. If you are interested I will look
> up what that package was.
> -gene
> 
> 

The package I was referring to is Luc Hermitte's
http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/#Win32

It works great from rxvt with any "gvim any-unix-style-path".

-gene


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