Re: Error running Windows gvim.exe from Cygwin

On 26/08/10 19:06, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I can run Vim 7.3f from a Cygwin 1.5 bash prompt like this:
>
> $ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Vim/vim73f/gvim.exe
>
> but when I try to run Vim 7.3.2 from a Cygwin 1.7 bash prompt the
> same way, i.e.,
>
> $ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Vim/vim73/gvim.exe
>
> I get a DOS window with "C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73\vimrun.exe" in
> the title bar and this text in the window:
>
> /bin/bash /c<symlink> /
> The system cannot find the file specified.
> shell returned 1
> Hit any key to close this window...
>
> When I hit Enter, a pop-up window from Vim appears, titled "Message"
> and containing this text:
>
> :!<symlink>**/*
>
> and an "Ok" button, where the first * is actually a y with an
> umlaut, the second * is some character that looks like a b and a p
> sharing the same circle part, and the third * is an open square.
>
> I can test the Cygwin 1.5 / Vim 7.3.2 combination a little later.
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on and how it can be fixed?
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>

I don't know the answer to your problem, but...

ÿ (Latin small letter y with diaeresis) is 0xFF
ş ("a b and p sharing the same circle part") is the Latin letter thorn,
used in Modern Icelandic and in several former states of Germanic
languages including Old English, to represent the unvoiced th sound as
in thin. Its hex value is 0xFE

0xFF 0xFE is the hex representation of a UTF-16le BOM (Unicode U+FEFF),
something often used at the very start of a Unicode file in order to
signal that it is recorded in little-endian UTF-16. This said, I still
don't know what to do, unless maybe refraining from running from a
Cygwin bash shell a Vim executable built for Native Windows (with no
runtime requirement for the cygwin1.dll)

Best regards,
Tony.
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