On 2006-05-23, Furash Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
The problem is the "--login" option that you included in
'shellcmdflag'. Every shell that you execute from vim is executed
as a login shell, which means it starts in your home directory. If
you just
set shellcmdflag=-c
instead, it should work fine.
Why did you include "--login"?
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
