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RE: gvimdiff fails on network drive
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'Shing-Fat Fred Ma'" <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 19:45:03 +0100
- Subject: RE: gvimdiff fails on network drive
Gvim isnt linked to cygwin1.dll so it wont see cygwin mount points.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [mailto:fma@doe.carleton.ca]
> Sent: 25 October 2002 19:25
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: gvimdiff fails on network drive
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using cygwin-1.3.12-4 on WinME. I'm
> using gvim 6.0 to diff a pair of files residing
> on a mounted network drive i.e. /SomeUser
> is a mount pointing to \\RemoteSunBox\SomeUser.
> Read/write access to /SomeUser is no problem.
> Using "gvim -d" on localfiles is no problem.
> But using "gvim -d" on files residing on /SomeUser
> generates the error E97 (can't create diff files).
>
> I thought it might be a path name problem,
> though both invocations would use unix
> style path names. But just to see, I tried
> putting this in _vimrc (courtesy Machitani-san):
>
> > if has("unix")
> > set shell=/bin/bash
> > elseif has("win32")
> > " set shell=c:/cygwin/bin/bash
> > set shell=c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe
> > set shellcmdflag=-c
> > set shellpipe=2>&1\|\ tee
> > set shellslash
> > endif
>
> But the problem persisted. Just as a note,
> my gvim is invoked by the bash function
>
> {
> ( unset SHELL;
> /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim60/gvim $* ) &
> }
>
> because gvim's diff *never* worked prior
> to the "unset SHELL".
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Fred
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Fred Ma
> Department of Electronics
> Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
> 1125 Colonel By Drive
> Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada K1S 5B6
> fma@doe.carleton.ca
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