Starting gvim from Windows

Neil Watson cygwin@watson-wilson.ca
Thu Mar 9 14:39:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:20:49AM -0700, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
>Neil Watson asked:
>> I have X running.  How can I start Cygwin's build of Gvim from Windows,
>> without doing from an xterm?  I tried issuing gvim from a cmd window but
>> I receive an error "cygice-6.dll was not found".
>
>I don't use X.  I just use RXVT windows on top of the Windows Desktop. 
>I don't use Cygwin's version of Gvim.  I use the Windows version.  To
>use Gvim from Cygwin, I have a small script (attached) that converts
>Cygwin paths to Windows paths and then launches Gvim.  With this setup,
>I can use a single version of Gvim from both Windows and Cygwin.

I've tried this in the past.  The problem I found was that Windows VIM
required a different vimrc syntax then the Unix VIM.  I was hoping to
avoid keeping two copies of my growing and changing vimrc file.

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