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Is it possible to get gVim (on windows) to execute external commands in cygwin by default? i.e. !ps will open a cygwin terminal showing the currenty running processes?
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Is it possible to get gVim (on windows) to execute external commands in cygwin by default? i.e. !ps will open a cygwin terminal showing the currenty running processes?
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First you need to tell Vim to run the bash program instead of cmd.exe, and bash needs to run as a login shell so that it will read the profile/login scripts and set up the environment (PATH, etc) properly.
You also need to change the setting that introduces command-line options to the shell:
:set shell=C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe\ -login
:set shellcmdflag=-c
If your cygwin commands require arguments, you should probably also
:set shellquote=\"
to ensure that the whole command gets wrapped up in quotes properly, otherwise the shell will only get the first word and ignore the rest.