Jeremy Leung <Leung-J2 <at> email.ulster.ac.uk> writes: > I have recently installed the latest version of Cygwin on my Windows 8 laptop, and everything is working as expected. > However the issue I am having is that when I'm in VIM, and try to use the ":grep" command, it says that the > command is not available in this version. > Why is this the case when I can use grep outside of VIM with no issues, and how could I solve this?
Have you updated cygwin base and vim recently? In cygwin mintty window type which vim and check output is: /usr/bin/vim In cygwin mintty window type vim In vim type: :!which grep and check you get: /usr/bin/grep In vim type: :version and check +quickfix is included not -quickfix. In vim type: :set grepprg? grepformat? and check these look like: grepprg=grep -n $* /dev/null grepformat=%f:%l:%m,%f:%l%m,%f %l%m You might have to change grepprg in your ~/.vimrc to :set grepprg=grep -n "$@" /dev/null to handle spaces in arguments properly or type "\ " instead of " ". In vim type: :set sh? shq? sxq? sxe? shcf? srr? stmp? and check these look like: shell=/bin/bash shellquote= shellxquote= shellxescape= shellcmdflag=-c shellredir=>%s 2>&1 shelltemp In vim type your grep command and post that from : and the output for more help. You might also want to try vim ":help grep" and use ":vim" aka ":vim[grep]" instead of ":grep" for searching external files. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
