Vim and Cygnus

[Jeremy Sheeley]

Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shiv Kumar [ mailto:vihs@rocketmail.com ]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:20 AM
> > To: cygwin; Vim Mailing List
> > Subject: Vim and Cygnus
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am using Cygnus tools (cygwin 1.1) and Vim for my development (powerful
> > combination). My shell is bash and the cygnus root is D:/root.  Cygwin has
> > created certain mount points for convenience :
> >
> >      $ mount
> >      D:\root\bin         /usr/bin            user         binmode
> >      D:\root\lib         /usr/lib            user         binmode
> >      D:\root             /                   user         binmode
> >      $ cat /tmp/x
> >      Test file
> >      $vim /tmp/x
> >      [New File]
> >
> > Vim searches for a file called D:/tmp/x which does not exist.
> >
> > Is there any way by which I can make Vim recognize cygwin mount points?

I've found that if vim is installed anywhere but under the cygwin
hierarchy (c:\winnt\system32\ for example), it won't find anything
referenced in the unix way.  Make sure that vim is installed in
/usr/bin/.

-Jeremy

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