Re: vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right

2002-04-22 Thread Chris Metcalf
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Use the cygpath utility then. This is awkward in the context of something like $EDITOR, which is spawned off by some non-Cygwin program to run vim. In this case you'd either need to do a .bat file, or else a simple executable that ran cygpath and

Re: vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right

2002-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:41:34PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote: > If you run vim with "c:\temp\foo" it complains > > E303: Unable to open swap file for "c:\temp\foo", recovery impossible > > However, it then manages to correctly write the file out to the indicated > path. Looking at strace sho

vim doesn't quite get backslash-separated paths right

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Metcalf
If you run vim with "c:\temp\foo" it complains E303: Unable to open swap file for "c:\temp\foo", recovery impossible However, it then manages to correctly write the file out to the indicated path. Looking at strace shows it trying to open a file named /tmp/c:\temp\foo.swp; it thinks the whole