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Re: small inter-operability patch for vim 6.1.2 for Cygwin
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:08:07PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> > Or better: Isn't there a cygwin trick for this already?
>
> Well, "cygpath -u PATH" will convert a Windows path to a Unix path.
> However, this means you can't just set $EDITOR to a simple executable,
> but have to walk it through a script (or dedicated binary) first.
> Also, it just seems wrong that vim doesn't handle a Windows path
> plausibly, when almost all of the other Cygwin tools do.
However, I don't see the problem in using `cygpath'. It's designed
for that purpose. I'm not quite sure if it makes sense to tweak
vim if there are already tools which do what you want.
Corinna
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