Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:44:51PM +0100, Strohhaecker, Bernd wrote:
> Yes, I've installed latest/which/which-1.4.tar.gz

I just tried it by myself again, setting the environment variable
$SHELL to different values prior to starting vim:

$ SHELL=/bin/tcsh vim foo.gz		<-- worked

$ SHELL=/bin/bash vim foo.gz            <-- worked

$ SHELL=/bin/sh vim foo.gz		<-- worked

$ SHELL="" vim foo.gz
  Error detected while processing function <SNR>7_read..<SNR>7_check:
  line    3:
  E91: 'shell' option is empty
  Can't open file /tmp/v666347/0
  line    5:
  E91: 'shell' option is empty
  Can't open file /tmp/v666347/1

$ SHELL=cmd vim foo.gz
  Error detected while processing function <SNR>7_read..<SNR>7_check:
  line    3:
  Can't open file /tmp/v666361/0
  line    5:
  Can't open file /tmp/v666361/1

Does that look familiar?

> Is the following patch reasonable ?

Since that is a target independent problem, I assume you should
ask on the bzip mailing list.  But when the Cygwin bzip maintainer
is around, he wants to chime in here, perhaps.

Corinna

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