From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8172 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2002 16:56:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8105 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2002 16:56:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO syntrex.com) (80.18.91.202) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2002 16:56:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 29334 invoked by uid 8); 4 Mar 2002 17:57:42 -0000 Received: from 212-41-210-71.adsl.galactica.it (212.41.210.71, claiming to be "MORDOR") by mail.syntrex.com with SMTP id smtpdJjO85T; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:57:32 EST Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 08:56:00 -0000 From: Pavel Tsekov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Pavel Tsekov Organization: Syntrex, Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <102444529.20020304175611@syntrex.com> To: Luke Bakken CC: Pavel Tsekov Subject: Re[2]: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00198.txt.bz2 Thanks, Luke! This explains it all! I'm sorry for the false alarm :( Monday, March 04, 2002, 5:19:29 PM, you wrote: LB> /bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character. It's a rather LB> limited shell. LB> try this: LB> :set shell=/bin/bash LB> Luke LB> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> Hey, there! :) >> >> I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth >> reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from >> vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using >> the tilde character fails: >> >> sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory >> >> shell returned 1 >> >> Hit ENTER or type command to continue -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/