On Tuesday 31 January 2006 01:28 pm, p-at-dirac.org \(Peter Jay Salzman\) |lugod| wrote: > In cygwin, I'd like to type "vi /etc/profile" and have gvim come up, > editing /etc/profile without necessarily running X. That means I need to > rely on a win32 installation of gvim, rather than the gvim that comes with > cygwin. > > I've installed win32 gvim in C:\Program Files\vim, but when I do: > > /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Vim/vim64/gvim.exe /etc/profile > > gvim comes up with: > > "Cannot open swap file for \etc\profile", recovery impossible
I _THINK_ the problem here is that gvim isn't a cygwin app, and doesn't know where /etc is. > > and I find myself editing an empty file. Eventually, I'd like to make > "/usr/bin/vi" an alias for "/cygdrive/c/Program Fiels/Vim/vim64/gvim.exe". > > Is there a way to use win32 gvim from within cygwin and have the pathnames > work out? This, I do not know. -- Ryan Castellucci - http://ryanc.org/ GPG Key: http://ryanc.org/files/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech