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Re: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?


Why gvim always change the access permission of the file it edit?  It always
adds the "x" permission to the file.
Is there anyway to forbit gvim do this?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luc Hermitte" <hermitte@free.fr>
To: "Peng Yu" <yupeng@physics.ucsd.edu>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?


> Hello,
>
> * On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:30:15PM -0700, Peng Yu
<yupeng@physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > Thank you for you script. I don't change $HOME, $VIM, $VIMRUNTIME in
> > cygwin, because I'm afraid there are some potential conflicts. Do I
> > have to worry about that.
>
> Nope. I don't think so.
> In the properties of my Windows XP system, HOME is set to c:\Users\Luc
> I've patched /etc/profile to make cygwin think it is in fact
> /cygdrive/f/Users/Luc
> Neither VIM nor VIMRUNTIME are set.
> I'm currently using gvim to edit this response. gvim has been launched
> thanks to cyg-wrapper, and it expands $HOME, $VIM and $VIMRUNTIME into:
>     f:\Users\Luc
>     f:\Program Files\Edition\vim
>     f:\Program Files\Edition\vim\vim62
>
> The _vimrc used is the one from $VIM (I do not have to say anything to
> vim), and the viminfo is $HOME/.viminfo
> because of
>     set viminfo=%,'50,\"100,:100,n~/.viminfo
> in my _vimrc.
>
> > BTW, what's the best place to store cyg-wrapper.sh . I store it to
> > /usr/bin. Is /bin better?
>
> Wherever you want. Personnally, I prefer $HOME/bin. Thus the day I
> reinstall cygwin or use it on another computer, I don't forget all the
> little scripts I use.
>
> If I had to choose between cygwin directories, I would use
> /usr/local/bin as I install non-cygwin-standard stuff into /usr/local/
> -- understand, the stuff I've compiled like mutt, a colored version of
> abook, irssi, w3m, librairies, ...
>
> HTH,
> -- 
> Luc Hermitte
>
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