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Re: function vi {...
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com, cygwin users <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: function vi {...
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at eurecom dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:43:21 -0500
At 06:36 AM 11/12/98 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>I thought I would share this nice function you can put into your
>.bashrc file.
>Note, this will only benefit those using the win32 native version of
>vim.exe.
>
>function vi {
> VIMFILES=;
> for FILE;
> do VIMFILES="$VIMFILES `cygpath -w $FILE`";
> done;
> vim $VIMFILES;
>}
>
>CAUTION:
>Do not name the function vim and do not alias vim=vi. If you do
>either you'll create a circular reference which doesn't resolve.
>
A way around the CAUTION is to write "command vim $VIMFILES;",
which will pick up the command and not the function.
Pierre
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