On 2007-03-30, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Waters, Bill wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience with running gVim and using Cygwin commands
> > (ex. indent)? I would prefer not to run vim in a Cygwin terminal, unless
> > someone has all of the configurations needed (syntax highlighting, etc) to
> > have that act like gVim.
> >
> >
> I generally compile both gvim and vim under cygwin, and haven't run into
> any problems. I haven't used indent, though. The problems I generally
> have had have been with Windows' paths and trying to get netrw to
> understand them properly, but that's not because of gvim and cygwin.
>
> If you already have cygwin, just get vim 7.0 source, and go to its
> source directory.
>
> gmake -f Make_cyg.mak
>
> will make gvim.exe by default. Edit Make_cyg.mak, and change GUI=yes
> to GUI=no, and type the same command above. That way you'll get
> vim.exe. Its really quite straightforward!
To build a console vim that used color, I had to also install the
Cygwin libncurses-devel package.
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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