Tomasz, On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Tomasz Rojek wrote:
> Hi all, > > I would like to share with this tip with any cygwin newbie (all the cygwin > developers know it for sure :) Apparently not... > I use a few text editors in my daily work, today I finally ;) came to idea > to have a shortcut pointing to vim in my "Send to" right click submenu. I > use this command in a shortcut to run vim in rxvt window: > > C:\FOLDER\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -display :0 -T vim -vb -sr -sl 10000 -bg black -cr > white -fg LightSteelBlue1 -j -fn > "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-14-14-m-0-iso8859-2" -e /usr/bin/vim > > Sending a file to vim works fine, drag&dropping any file on above shortcut > opens the file in vim too. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've been using this for almost two weeks now, with nary a glitch. It also showed me a way to properly implement "vi.bat" and "vimdiff.bat" (attached) which allow one to invoke "vi file [files]" or "vimdiff file1 file2 [files...]" from a DOS prompt. The above opened a DOS box, so I actually had to change it to C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/rxvt.exe -display :0 -T vim -vb -sr -sl 10000 -bg black -cr white -fg LightSteelBlue1 -j -fn "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-14-14-m-0-iso8859-2" -e /usr/bin/vim in my shortcut (my "run.exe" is in /bin, see below). BTW, the "-sr -sl 10000" are not needed for vim itself, due to alternate screen usage, but they are useful if you invoke shell commands via ":!" and want to see the output. One cool thing I can add is that I've compiled my own version of "run.exe" with an embedded vim icon (the nice-looking one from the vim source), and made that the icon for this shortcut. Looks nice. If anyone is interested, I can provide a patch to run... FWIW, IMO it's about time for run to become a Cygwin package in its own right. Yeah, I know, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>... I'll try to coordinate with the Cygwin/X maintainer. But it'll have to be in a week. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
