Re: Cannot use vimdiff when started from cygwin

On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:13:22 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:16:44 AM UTC-5, skeept wrote:
> >
> > what I would like to have is
> > if has("win32") and shell.find('bash') >= 0
> > "let $TMP = 'c:\\htemp\\tmp'
> > set shell=C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
> > "set shellxquote=(
> > endif
> >
> > my question now is how do this test, to check if the string bash is in shell?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> You can access any option's value in a script by prepending '&' to the option name.
>
> So in this case, you'd test for bash with something like:
>
> " test for bash on Windows
> if has('win32') && &shell =~ 'bash'
>
> Or even better:
>
> " test for pretty much any Unixy shell on Windows
> if has('win32') && &shell =~ 'sh$'
>
> or:
>
> " test for Windows not using the default Windows shell
> if has('win32') && &shell !~ 'cmd'

Thanks, I didn't know about these =~ and !~ operators. They seem to be similar to the ones in perl that I have trying to learn lately.

Best Regards,
Jorge

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