I'm using VIM on windows with cygwin. In my _vimrc I've got the following " automatically swithc directories set autochdir
" For cygwin shell set shell=C:/cygwin/bin/bash set shellcmdflag=--login\ -c set shellxquote=\" When I try to use cygwin stuff with the "!" command or similar things from vim, it doesn't seem to know where it is. That is, if I open up a file on the desktop with gvim, and do :pwd It prints out the path of the desktop (thanks to autochdir I think). However, if I do :! pwd It prints out the location of my windows home directory. Is there anyway I could automatically pass to the shell the location it should start in?