How to run windows gvim from cygwin?

Question

I am not able to run gvim from cygwin. When I try to open a new file with :

gvim filename gvim opens a file with 'No name' and displays error as :

Error detected while processing command line
E492: Not editor command: C:\cygwin\home\chandan\l
Press enter or type command to continue 

More problematic is that I can't open existing file in the path

>which gvim shows /usr/bin/gvim

I have put alias gvim=/cygdrive/c/Program\Files\(x86\)/Vim/vim73/gvim.exe still

Answer 1

I wrote cyg-wrapper.sh for this sole purpose.

It supports:

• symbolic links
• options that must not be interpreted as pathnames (see -c with gvim, or any flags starting with a minus sign).

In other words, it enables us to type:

  gvim /etc/profile -c /PS1 -c "echo 'correctly opened'"
# or even:
  cd ~/tmp ; ln -s ~/bin/cyg-wrapper.sh 
  gvim -d http://hermitte.free.fr/cygwin/cyg-wrapper.sh cyg-wrapper.sh

  explorer -e
  explorer "$vim"
  explorer http://hermitte.free.fr/

Note: I use the following function in my .profile to run gvim with cyg-wrapper.sh

gvim() {
    opt=''
    if [ `expr "$*" : '.*tex\>'` -gt 0 ] ; then
    opt='--servername LATEX '
    fi
    cyg-wrapper.sh "C:/Progra~1/Edition/vim/vim73/gvim.exe" --binary-opt=-c,--cmd,-T,-t,--servername,--remote-send,--remote-expr --cyg-verbose --fork=2 $opt "$@"
}

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EDIT: Currently (Sept 26 2014, using Vim 7.4), Windows gVim uses C:\Windows\gvim.bat to launch gVim from the command line. Replacing the gvim.exe path in the gvim() function with this script allows launching gvim without changing the path to match the current Vim version (which may actually be in Progra~2); however, it appears to also open a superfluous cmd.exe window.