Re: using a single instance of vim in cygwin

["Robert Bram" <robertmarkbram at gmail dot com>]

Thank you for your advice Corinna!

>> The --servername options doesn't work on my Cygwin vim. Is there any
>> work-around to have vim on Cygwin use a single instance?
>
> Plain vim is explicitly build without X support, which is required for
> the clientserver option.  This should work with gvim under X, though.
> If you want to use plain vim, just build it yourself.  Plain vim for
> Cygwin is configured with
>
>  --without-x --enable-gui=no --with-features=huge

I think I will solve this problem from the other end:
http://robertmarkbramprogrammer.blogspot.com/2008/12/searching-files-within-vim-and-opening.html

Rob
:)

General Blog: http://robertmarkbram.blogspot.com/
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