Re: Vim under cygwin

On 23 Oct 2012, at 03:42, Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> On 12/07/12 18:06, Andrew Long wrote:
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew Long IT Specialist
>>> Mainframe Management Virgin Money
>>> +44 (191) 279 4537 Andrew dot Long at Virgin Money dot com
>>>
>>> <snip/>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.

I no longer have a native windows vim installed on my system at work - I uninstalled it many years ago and have stuck with cygwin ever since.

>
> 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.)

I haven't yet looked in all of the *.vim files. I don't have a system vimrc file at $VIM, thogh there is a vimrc_sample in $VIM/vim73 ($VIM points at /usr/share/vim)

I think the path must be constructed somehow, as it's inheriting the path to my $HOME directory (either in a POSIX or Windows style) and then putting the terminal name of the .vim/vimfiles folder in front of 'plugin'; I only hear about it when it's using the Windows form of the path.

If I get a chance before I go on holiday next week I'll try to find the place in my local or system *.vim files.

Regards, Andy

--
Andrew Long
andrew dot long at mac dot com





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