Juan, When you wrote:
> The string "C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192" > is my COMSPEC variable, ... Is the \e (rather than /e) an email typo or real typo? --Suresh -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Juan Lanus Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:56 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: gvim not using the shell option for ! commands Gerald Lai <laige <at> eecs.oregonstate.edu> writes: > One more thing you can try. Run Sysinternal's Filemon at > http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html The filemon program shows that: this program does this to this path ________________________ & this happens vimrun.exe:816 QUERY INFO >C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192.com< PATH NOT FOUND vimrun.exe:816 QUERY INFO >C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192.exe< PATH NOT FOUND vimrun.exe:816 QUERY INFO >C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192.bat< PATH NOT FOUND vimrun.exe:816 QUERY INFO >C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192.cmd< PATH NOT FOUND I imagine that vimrun triggered a system() command for to run "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /e:8192" and that Windows is looking for a plausible extension for to add to the ending 8192. The string "C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe \e:8192" is my COMSPEC variable, with a /E option for to have more space for Environment variables. vimrun is treating the whole COMSPEC content as a path, while it can be a path with flags: SET ComSpec=%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /e:8192 After this gvim looks for cmd.exe in several locations. None of them in the good one, that's set in _gvimrc: set shell=%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe A :set shell returns this one, with %SystemRoot% replaced. The manual (os_dos.txt) says: The default for the 'sh' ('shell') option is ... "cmd.exe" on Windows NT. If SHELL is defined, Vim uses SHELL instead, and if SHELL is not defined but COMSPEC is, Vim uses COMSPEC. Vim starts external commands with "<shell> /c <command_name>". If I delete the /E:8192 option from the COMSPEC system variable then vimrun works OK. But all my COBOL software will fail ... IMO this is a bug, specially how gvim is failing to select the shell option before anything else. Now I'll be able to sleep. Thanks Gerald. -- Juan Lanus TECNOSOL Argentina Test case, for Windows NT: gvim fails to use the shell option in ! commands 1- Add a flag to the COMSPEC system variable, for example /E:8192 2- Add a set shell=<same as COMSPEC but no flag> in _gvimrc 3- Open a file in gvim 4- !!path fails with a tempfile error 5- :!path fails with a -1 status code in a DOS window
