Re: Fwd: Vim under cygwin

On 12/07/12 18:06, Andrew Long wrote:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Long, Andrew" <Andrew.Long@VirginMoney.com>
>> Subject: Vim under cygwin
>> Date: 12 July 2012 10:18:32 GMT+01:00
>> To: andrew.long@mac.com
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>> 0126792@XP037234 ~/NRock/Projects/dbJnlStats/working
>> $ vim -gS Session.vim
>> cygwin warning:
>> MS-DOS style path detected: C:\winnt\profiles\0126792\vimfiles\plugin
>> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /home/0126792/vimfiles/plugin
>> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
>> warning.
>> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>>
>> 0126792@XP037234 ~/NRock/Projects/dbJnlStats/working
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>> --
>> Andrew Long IT Specialist
>> Mainframe Management Virgin Money
>> +44 (191) 279 4537 Andrew dot Long at Virgin Money dot com
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> The message above (sometimes) comes out of a fresh XTerm session when I start vim using a saved Session.vim file. I've tried to locate the offending file using egrep on all the .vim files in my vimfiles folder (which has a soft link of '.vim' pointing at it!)also in the Session.vim file, but no matches.
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> It doesn't seem to cause any real problems, but it's a message I'd like to get rid of. Any suggestions as to how I can find the problem and put it right, please?
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> Regards, Andy
>

This message might happen if you use the same Session.vim with a
native-Windows Vim (compiled to run in Windows without Cygwin, for
instance Steve Hall's "Vim without Cream") and with a Cygwin version of
Vim (compiled to use the Cygwin DLL, for instance the console Vim
distributed with Cygwin) and if both of them use :mksession (for
instance at shutdown). Then the native-Windows Vim will probably write a
Windows-like path (with backslashes) which the Cygwin Vim won't like.

If that string is in none of your *.vim files, it might be in a "system
vimrc" provided by Cygwin (see near the middle of the output of the
:version command of your Cygwin Vim to know where it is — $VIM/vimrc is
the default, but /etc/vimrc is often set instead at compile-time, in
both cases normally with no initial dot in the filename) or in a vim.bat
wrapper if you have one in your $PATH, or if none of these match, in
some custom change brought by the Cygwin engineers into the Vim C
source. (The "system vimrc" case seems most likely to me.)


Best regards,
Tony.
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Before his life is done,
To write three lines of APL,
And make the damn things run.

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