At 05:44 PM 9/27/2002 -0500, Jeff Perry wrote: >I am very confused about how cygwin maps its root to the c:/cygwin >directory. I'm also not sure what /cygdrive is. "c:\cygwin" is mounted as "/". Your Windows drives (c:, d:) are mounted under /cygdrive (/cygdrive/c, /cygdrive/d).
>When I type gvim /etc/passwd from bash, gvim comes up with an empty file >called passwd in c:/etc (which doesn't exist). If I try to write this file, >gvim fails, which, of course, it should. (The gvim I'm using is the one >compiled for NT). This is correct behavior. Only programs compiled against cygwin1.dll are aware of Cygwin-style paths. vim is available for Cygwin, maybe gvim is as well (try http://cygwin.com/packages/ , try Google, try searching the mailing list). >Also, when I try to tab-expand /cygdrive/c/..., bash can never expand the >files. For example, if I type >$ cd /cygdrive/c/winn<tab>, bash cannot complete the 't' and instead beeps. >But if I complete it for bash by adding the t and the pressing <return>, >bash will cd me to the c:/winnt directory. The name of the directory is WINNT, not winnt. bash will tab-complete successfully if you give it the right name (exceptions include /dev). Jeremy -- 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/
