Re: Vim under cygwin

On 18 Oct 2012, at 15:51, Andrew Long wrote:

>
> On 17 Oct 2012, at 18:19, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 2012-10-17, Andrew Long wrote:
>>> On 12 Jul 2012, at 17:06, Andrew Long wrote:
>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>> From: "Long, Andrew"
>>>>> Subject: Vim under cygwin
>>>>> Date: 12 July 2012 10:18:32 GMT+01:00
>>>>> To: andrew...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
> <snip/>
>>
>> I have such symlinks in place, too, for just that purpose and have
>> never had a problem. Perhaps you used a Windows-style path name
>> when you created the symlink from ~/.vim. That, "ls -d ~/.vim"
>> should have shown something like this,
>>
>> /home/0126792/.vim -> /cygdrive/c/winnt/profiles/0126792/vimfiles
>>
>> and I'll be it looked like this instead,
>>
>> /home/0126792/.vim -> C:\winnt\profiles\0126792\vimfiles
>
> Hi Gary
>
> I don't *recall* seing anything like that; I'll have a play when I'm back at work tomorrow.
>
> I certainly created simple symlinks in the current directory by just doing:-
>
> ln -s vimfiles .vim
>
> and similarly for the xxxrc files.
>
> Regards, Andy

Well, it seems like I *didn't* have a clue... ISTR that it *was* intermittent, and this morning, without any symlinks in place , and all files using Unix naming standards, I got the same cygwin message again (although rather than referring to 'vimfiles' in the error, it mentioned '.vim')

So I've gone back to symlinking unix names to windows names, which also should stop me having to tidy out the windows ve rsions of the files that keep on being restored from my roaming profile.

Regards, Andy

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