Opening new cygwin window with arguments
Paul Allen Newell
pnewell@cs.cmu.edu
Thu Jan 12 22:52:00 GMT 2012
On 1/11/2012 10:38 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> On 1/11/2012 10:26 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> 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
>
Daniel:
Installing and running /usr/bin/vim sure works alot better ... thanks
for pointing out my oversight.
Things are a bit screwy on the Windows side, but that's not a Cygwin issue.
Paul
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