Re: Shelling out to cygwin bash from Windows vim

On Sep 2, 1:40 am, Gary Johnson <garyj...@spocom.com> wrote:
> On 2012-09-01, AndyHancock wrote:
> >          let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe ' .
> >             \ --rcfile c:/cygwin/home/' . $USERNAME . '/.bashrc -i'
>
> Windows has to understand the path to the shell executable, but the
> argument to --rcfile is interpreted by Cygwin's bash, which only
> officially supports POSIX paths, so it should be something like
> this:
>
>     /home/$USERNAME/.bashrc

I assume that taking out c:/cygwin would take care of the situations
in which cygwin is installed elsewhere.

Interesting that

let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
\ --rcfile /home/'.$USERNAME.'/.bashrc -i'

works but

let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
\ --rcfile /home/$USERNAME/.bashrc -i'

does not. If I do

!!echo $USERNAME

bash returns the correct username comes back. That would seem to
indicate that the 2nd shell setting above should work too. A mystery
for another day...

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