X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: tom <tomstrummer AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  MSYS path behavior in Cygwin
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:24:44 +0000 (UTC)
Lines: 17
Message-ID:  <loom.20060130T172329-717@post.gmane.org>
Mime-Version:  1.0
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding:  7bit
User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Hey all, 
 
I used to use MSYS simply as my general purpose shell (infinitely better than
cmd!) However, I've started using Cygwin since I really just use it as a shell
rather than a build environment, and Cygwin has the full selection of tools.  
 
That said, one thing I loved about msys is the ability to pass a *nix style path
and have it automatically converted, i.e. I could start gvim like so: 
gvim.exe /c/src/myfile.cs  
and the path would convert to 'C:\src\myfile.cs' for the windows exe. 
 
I know cygwin has the cygpath util to deal with this... But is there any way to
get the MSYS automatic path conversion in Cygwin? I know Cygwin has 'MinGW
runtime' library packages - Is there some way to use those libs in Cygwin to get
the desired effect? Any insight? 
 
Thanks! 


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/