cygwin interaction with explorer

[Mark Hadfield]

From: "Kevin Schnitzius" <kevin.schnitzius@citrix.com>
> I'd like vim to be the default action for txt, c, h, log, etc files.  So,
on
> my win2k machine, I set the default action to
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe -u /usr/local/bin/dosrc "%1"
>
> This works great except if the file is on a remote server.  For example,
if
> the file is \\server\share\file.txt, vim will try to open
> \server\share\file.txt, which of course fails.

Try setting CYGWIN=noglob. This prevents Cygwin from fiddling with the file
names before it sends them to vim. In my experience this fiddling (globbing)
gives problems with \\server\share file names.

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz  http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research


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