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RE: using cygwin's Perl from within gvim
- From: Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:35:15 +0200
- Subject: RE: using cygwin's Perl from within gvim
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Lyle wrote on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:28 AM:
<snip>
> I'm using VIM 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Mar 24 2002
> 16:04:44) MS-Windows 32 bit GUI version with OLE support on Windows
> XP.
>
> Any ideas?
Yes. GVIM is not a Cygwin application and will provide perl with a temporary file name in DOSish format. Since Cygwin's perl expect files in standard Unix format, this won't work. For GVIM use a Win32-aware perl from the perl home page or from ActiveState.
Regards,
Jörg