created by

Eric Van Dewoestine

script type

utility

description

"   This script has been created as a means to hopefully make using "   cygwin easier, so that scripts that utilize *nix commands can be "   ported to windows. " "   Right now this script provides only a few funtions, but it may grow "   over time. " "   I'm making sure that each function will be safe to use under *nix "   (specifically linux, since that's what I use) by confirming that vim "   is running under windows before executing any windows/cygwin "   specific commands. " " Platform: "   Windows: "     Requires cygwin (http://cygwin.com). "   *nux: "     Should be safe to use any function defined within on *nix systems "     since each function checks the platform before running system "     specific commands. " "     However, if you don't want *nix users to have a dependency on this "     plugin, you may define proxy functions that first check if a function "     is defined before using it. " "     Ex. Defining a proxy function for translating paths based on OS. "       function! s:DeterminePath (path) "         if exists("*CygwinPath") "           return CygwinPath(a:path) "         endif "         return a:path "       endfunction " " Configuration: "   Note: Configuration is only necessary on Windows machines. " "   g:CygwinHome "     Set this to the location of your cygwin installation dir. "     Ex. "       let g:CygwinHome = 'c:/cygwin' "     Note: Be careful using '\' in double quoted strings since "     that represents the start of an escape character in vim. " "   On windows you will need to add your cygwin/bin directory to "   your WINDOWS path. "     PATH=%CYGWIN_HOME%\bin;%PATH% "   So that unix commands can be executed from your dos console. " "   Also, I had issues using Windows' default temp directory. "   Vim continually had issues accessing temp files (that I have "   no control over).  It seems it was due to the spaces in the "   directory path, so I changed my system %TMP% and %TEMP% "   variables to point to c:\cygwin\tmp instead, and that solved "   my issues.  You may have to do the same. " " Limitations: "   All file and directory paths used in cygwin commands need to "   be absolute.  When the vim shell is set to a cygwin shell, the "   shell defaults to executing in the user's home directory. "   Because of this, relative paths cannot be used.

install details

put in your plugin directory and read the Description section of the plugin for configuration details.

Click on the package to download.

package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
cygwin_utils.vim	0.1	2004-12-05	6.0	Eric Van Dewoestine	Initial upload

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