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Re: Vim and Cygnus
- To: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Subject: Re: Vim and Cygnus
- From: Jeremy Sheeley <jeremy at sourcegear dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 15:05:06 -0500
- CC: cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <MHEMLLEBIBOHNHCIECPAGEPFCBAA.ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shiv Kumar [mailto:vihs@rocketmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:20 AM
> > To: cygwin; Vim Mailing List
> > Subject: Vim and Cygnus
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am using Cygnus tools (cygwin 1.1) and Vim for my development (powerful
> > combination). My shell is bash and the cygnus root is D:/root. Cygwin has
> > created certain mount points for convenience :
> >
> > $ mount
> > D:\root\bin /usr/bin user binmode
> > D:\root\lib /usr/lib user binmode
> > D:\root / user binmode
> > $ cat /tmp/x
> > Test file
> > $vim /tmp/x
> > [New File]
> >
> > Vim searches for a file called D:/tmp/x which does not exist.
> >
> > Is there any way by which I can make Vim recognize cygwin mount points?
I've found that if vim is installed anywhere but under the cygwin
hierarchy (c:\winnt\system32\ for example), it won't find anything
referenced in the unix way. Make sure that vim is installed in
/usr/bin/.
-Jeremy
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