Re: Shelling out to cygwin bash from Windows vim

On Friday, September 7, 2012 1:10:17 AM UTC-4, Linda W wrote:
> AndyHancock wrote:
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> > This problem dogged me for many years, and I finally hunkered down to
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> > chase it down.
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> > Here is the solution that I found works for me:
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> >
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> > "set shell=c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ -i
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> > "Won't always find ~/.bashrc cuz depending on how vim is launched,
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> > "~ doesn't always resolve to c:/cygwin/home/$USERNAME
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> > "let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ --rcfile c:\cygwin\home\' .
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> > " \ $USERNAME . '\.bashrc'
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> > "Backslashes are hated by bash. Also needs -i to ensure bash is
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> > "interactive so that .bashrc is sourced
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> > let &shell='c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --rcfile c:/cygwin/home/' .
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> > \ $USERNAME . '/.bashrc -i'
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> > " Depending on how vim is launched, c:/cygwin/home/$USERNAME
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> > " will sometimes be equivalent to ~. If so, then it will be
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> > " replaced by ~ in &shell.
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> >
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> > Thanks to all those who helped on the unix, bash, cygwin, and vim
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> > forums.
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> >
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> >
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> Wow... that looks complicated.
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> Why don't you just set
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> SHELL=C:/Bin/Bash.exe
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> I have my cygwin in C:/
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> In my system environment vars (controlpanel->system->
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> advanced system settings(system properties)->Advanced->
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> Environment variables->System Variables,
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> I have:
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> DISPLAY=:0
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> CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning winsymlinks export
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> PATH=C:\prog64\vim;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\bin;[other
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> stuff]...
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> SHELL=C:/Bin/Bash.exe
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> Bash starts and runs it's RC vars, which pick up my home.. and
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> that runs my .bashrc.
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> One of the aliases I have in my bash startup files
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> for gvim is "setsid gvim"
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> That allows gvim to run in the background...
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> Would that work for you?
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> I let bash & cygwin figure out my userid and home ..

Thanks Linda, this worked perfectly for me. Though I did leave the "set shell=..." in my vimrc.

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