MSYS path behavior in Cygwin

[tom <tomstrummer at gmail dot com>]

Hey all, 
 
I used to use MSYS simply as my general purpose shell (infinitely better than
cmd!) However, I've started using Cygwin since I really just use it as a shell
rather than a build environment, and Cygwin has the full selection of tools.  
 
That said, one thing I loved about msys is the ability to pass a *nix style path
and have it automatically converted, i.e. I could start gvim like so: 
gvim.exe /c/src/myfile.cs  
and the path would convert to 'C:\src\myfile.cs' for the windows exe. 
 
I know cygwin has the cygpath util to deal with this... But is there any way to
get the MSYS automatic path conversion in Cygwin? I know Cygwin has 'MinGW
runtime' library packages - Is there some way to use those libs in Cygwin to get
the desired effect? Any insight? 
 
Thanks! 


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