X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:38:19 -0500 From: Neil Watson To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Starting gvim from Windows Message-ID: <20060309143819.GB6731@ettin.watson-wilson.ca> References: <20060309072049 DOT fb30e530d17747c2b054d625b8945d88 DOT 361d43a710 DOT wbe AT email DOT email DOT secureserver DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060309072049.fb30e530d17747c2b054d625b8945d88.361d43a710.wbe@email.email.secureserver.net> X-Message-Flag: Outlook is a dangerous and insecure program (Magic 8 ball: Outlook not good) X-Accepted-File-Formats: No proprietary Microsoft Office files please User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:20:49AM -0700, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >Neil Watson asked: >> I have X running. How can I start Cygwin's build of Gvim from Windows, >> without doing from an xterm? I tried issuing gvim from a cmd window but >> I receive an error "cygice-6.dll was not found". > >I don't use X. I just use RXVT windows on top of the Windows Desktop. >I don't use Cygwin's version of Gvim. I use the Windows version. To >use Gvim from Cygwin, I have a small script (attached) that converts >Cygwin paths to Windows paths and then launches Gvim. With this setup, >I can use a single version of Gvim from both Windows and Cygwin. I've tried this in the past. The problem I found was that Windows VIM required a different vimrc syntax then the Unix VIM. I was hoping to avoid keeping two copies of my growing and changing vimrc file. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux Network Administrator | Uptime 5 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.11.4 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 -- 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/