Re: Shelling out to cygwin bash from Windows vim

>> AndyHancock wrote:
>>> This problem dogged me for many years, and I finally hunkered down
>>> to chase it down.
>>>
>>> Here is the solution that I found works for me:
>>>
>>> "set shell=c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ -i
>>> "Won't always find ~/.bashrc cuz depending on how vim is
>>> "launched, ~ doesn't always resolve to c:/cygwin/home/$USERNAME

> I don't know if setting the environment variable SHELL would propagate
> its value into the vim option "shell". However, even if it did, I
> would feel more comfortable with the command in my code because just
> setting the shell alone left the rc file un-executed, even with the
> interactive flag was provided as part of the "shell" option (which is
> suppose to cause the rc file to run). It's all kind of foggy to me
> now, but I believe that one of the possible causes was that $HOME was
> being set to different things depending on how vim was invoked. So it
> wasn't finding the rc file in many cases.

I never tried to shelling using cygwin bash on Windows GVim. I will give a shot.
In respect to '~' to be recognized as $HOME you will need to create an
environment
variable, in Windows, targeting that path. Be prepared that if you
have any other
cross platform software it probably will use that %HOME% path to write
temporary
and configuration specific files (Inkscape, GIMP, Dia, etc.).

The best thing about this configuration is that both Windows Vim/Gvim and cygwin
vim uses the same user runtime path (~/.vim) with save me for synchronizing
plugins, syntaxes, colors, etc.

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