Opening new cygwin window with arguments

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 1/11/2012 10:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 1/11/12 10:22 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> On 1/11/2012 7:37 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>>       mintty -e tail -f foo&
>>>
>>> The -e is optional, but I like keeping my mintty commands consistent
>>> with those I write for other terminals.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Gary
>>>
>> I am using cygwin 1.7.9-1 per cygcheck.
>>
>> I tried using mintty and it looks better than the default window the
>> launching cygwin puts up. But I noticed that if I "vim" a file,
>> nothing happens. When I control-C out, I can see that actually
>> something did happen as there is a ".whatever.swp" file created. For
>> the heck of it, I tried under an x shell (?hope I have my terminology
>> right?) via "startxwin&" and had the same vim experience (no file
>> opening but a swp file left).
> Are you using Cygwin vim or a native win32 vim? Win32 console programs
> generally aren't happy in mintty, and you should use their Cygwin
> equivalents.
>
Daniel:

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I just did a which on vim and can see that it is referencing 
/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Vim/vim72/vim. My bad as I should have checked 
that .. I somehow was convinced that I had gotten a vim from cygwin setup.

Let me correct that and see if things work.

Once again, thanks,
Paul


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