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Subject: Re: 1.7 - Odd behaviour with vim
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> Uh, that explains it.  The full message is
>
>  MS-DOS style path detected: %s
>  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: %s
>  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
>  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>  http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames\n");
>
> This message is only generated once per session and can be switched
> off entirely using the CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning setting.
>
> Bottom line: Don't use DOS paths.

Understood... I don't when within Cygwin shell.

> Second bottom line: It would be interesting to learn why the message
> has been printed, *iff* you didn't use a DOS path somewhere explicitely.

In vim I'm executing:

:e /cygdrive/c/source/emerge/trunk/Source/emergeLib/main.cpp

Could it be related to using /cygdive?

Chris

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