New to Cygwin and trying to launch the batch file from the current working directory. I've done similar things before for .exe files in Windows 10 using the Registry Editor (see link):
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-launch-bash-shell-right-click-context-menu-windows-10
My Cygwin.bat file looks like this:
#echo off
SETLOCAL
set HOME=C:\path\to\home
C:
chdir C:\cygwin64\bin
bash --login -i
ENDLOCAL
However, when I right click on a directory in order to "Open Cygwin.bat here", the terminal opens at C:\path\to\home. How can I make sure the terminal opens in the current working directory?
To obtain the expected result you need to use the chere package.
chere -i
is usually enough to create a proper Bash Prompt Here entry in Explorer left mouse button menu.
Please note that the usage of the cygwin.bat is not recommended anyway as does not use mintty as terminal
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
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 $opt "$#"
}
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.
Found this thread, I find the answer from jens unacceptable. We're not asking to be told not to do it. I didn't like the other answers either there was always some quirk, like settings not used or an extra command line window popping up. I Did some digging and this works for me. No extra command line box for nothing and it uses my proper gvim settings.
alias gvim='HOME=/cygdrive/p/ cygstart /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim74/gvim.exe'
You simply need to alter the HOME to your own. To find out what to put there run gvim from windows then put in ":echo $HOME" and hit enter in my case it shows P:\ so that translates to /cygdrive/p/
Also if your gvim.exe is in a different directory/version you'll need to adjust.
Now when I type 'gvim script.sh' at a cygwin command prompt it launches gvim with the file, all nice and neat!
UPDATE
I found a slightly better way to do this. Using the alias was tying up my session that I ran the gvim from, I wanted it to launch as a separate process, using "gvim &" is inelegant as it lists job number when launching and displays a "done" line when completed. I'm too fussy so I figured out how to get that all tidy by using a function.
Just add this to your .bash_functions file, it builds on the previous section regarding home directory and backslash use.
gvim() {
ORIGHOME=$HOME
HOME=/cygdrive/p/
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim74/gvim.exe $1 & disown
HOME=$ORIGHOME
} 2>/dev/null
UPDATE 2 for babun users!
Ok since having wrestled with this originally I have ended up scrapping the original cygwin install in favor of babun which seems to be a less troublesome setup for those wanting linux functionality in windows without a full blown virtual. Of course my gvim launch script broke, and I had to do the following in my .zshrc file (babun uses zsh, at first I resisted and switched it to bash but then relented as I figured they must have reason, and they did, I like it)
gvim() {
OLD_HOME=$HOME
OLD_VIMRUNTIME=$VIMRUNTIME
export HOME=/cygdrive/c/Users/gmitchell/
export VIMRUNTIME="C:\Program Files (x86)\VIM\vim74"
TARGET=$(cygpath -w $1)
(/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim74/gvim.exe $TARGET &)
export HOME=$OLD_HOME
export VIMRUNTIME=$OLD_VIMRUNTIME
}
*Note: the surrounding curved braces ( ) stops the job id from messing up your clean shell, and you no longer need the "disown"
P.S. The only remaining annoyance with this now is that you cannot "exit" the babun shell until all gvim instances you've launched are closed. Maybe someone can figure that own out. I've tried. When you type exit it just hangs there until you've exited all gvims.
Do yourself a favor, don't attempt to run a windows gvim from cygwin. The set of environment variables is likely completely different, and the pain of backslash directory separators, blanks in filenames, inability to understand /cygwin paths makes this an exercise in futility.
Then, what? Install the cygwin version of gvim and forget about all these problems.
Here is all you need to do:
alias gvim="run.exe /cygdrive/c/Programming/Tools/Vim/vim74/gvim.exe"
Works also with Notepad++, like so:
alias np="run.exe /cygdrive/c/Programming/Tools/Notepad++/notepad++.exe"
I have the same problem
because of the $SHELL var
so, I simple do like this
alias gvim='cmd /c "set SHELL=cmd & start gvim"'
It works for me, may be this will be help you too.
and maybe you want use the same alias for vim.
I put the following function in my .bashrc:
function gvim
{
GVIM_CMD=/cygdrive/c/path/to/gVimPortable.exe
if [[ -z "$1" ]]
then
$GVIM_CMD
else
$GVIM_CMD `cygpath -w $1`
fi
}
This allows me to launch gVim from anywhere.
It works fine for files with spaces, too...
This is a take off on low351's answer. I was unhappy with leaving HOME changed in the cygwin terminal, since I use that locally for a cygwin HOME, not my windows home. But gvim is all setup using Windows HOME. I added this to my .zshrc:
# run windows gvim from command line
gvim() {
local OLD_HOME=$HOME
HOME=/cygdrive/c/Users/jason/
local TARGET=$(cygpath -w $1)
/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim74/gvim.exe $TARGET & disown
HOME=$OLD_HOME
} 2>/dev/null
really, just storing and restoring HOME. Being local, OLD_HOME goes away when the function returns, so it doesn't pollute the environment. If you're editing a cygwin file, running it through cygpath -w will make it a file path that windows gvim understands. It also lets you use window paths (e.g. C:/tmp/foo.txt) but w/ unix '/' separators, so you can dispense with /cygdrive/c. I believe this is all compatible w/ bash. This gives the following output:
> gvim
[2] 5060
>
It seems like the main problem is the HOME and VIM variables which are appropriate to the cygwin environment get exported when running Windows gvim, causing problems because Windows gvim knows nothing of cygwin. This fixes it:
alias gvim='env -u HOME -u VIM /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim74/gvim.exe'
I have Windows gvim set as the default application (in Windows) for many filetypes, so Windows gvim frequently gets opened via the open alias. This fixes that use case:
alias open='env -u HOME -u VIM cygstart'
I just renamed gvim.bat which comes with the standard Win32 vim installation to gvim and put it into /usr/bin.
I am also sharing settings beetween Win32 GVim and Cygwin VIM referring to this article:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Synchronize_configuration_to_many_computers
This way i can have both Vim and Win32 Gvim running with the same plugins and settings.
Since I've tried all of these and had issues I'll show what I'm using. I wrote it in ruby and it handles everything I throw at it (files, directories, or nothing) without any errors/popups/etc.
I saved it as gvim in ~/Dropbox/bin/cygwin/ (which is in my PATH)
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
args=''
filepath=''
arg=ARGV[0]
if arg
if File.exist? arg
if File.file? arg
args+="--remote-tab-silent "
end
filepath=`cygpath -w '#{arg}'`.strip
filepath="'#{filepath}'"
end
else
end
exe="'/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/vim/vim73/gvim.exe' #{args} #{filepath}"
spawn exe
Here's the script I use for ~/bin/gvim. It runs it as if I called gvim FOO from the "Run" dialog (thanks to the batch file being invoked by explorer.exe). Can't play too nicely with the command line, but a self-deleting batch file comes to the rescue.
#!/bin/bash
TEMPFILE_NAME=gvim-`date +%s`-${RANDOM}.bat
TEMPFILE=$TMP/$TEMPFILE_NAME
TEMPFILE_W=`cygpath --windows --absolute --long-name "$TEMPFILE"`
TARGET=
if [ "$1" = "" ] ; then
TARGET=`cygpath --windows --absolute --long-name "."`
else
TARGET=`cygpath --windows --absolute --long-name "$#" | tr '\n' ' '`
fi
WIN_GVIM=`where gvim.exe | tr -d '\r\n'`
WIN_GVIM=`cygpath "$WIN_GVIM" --windows --absolute --long-name`
unix2dos > $TEMPFILE << EOF
start "gvim" "$WIN_GVIM" $TARGET
DEL %~f0
EOF
chmod +x $TEMPFILE
explorer.exe "$TEMPFILE_W"
Special thanks to this answer for the explorer.exe technique.
I have installed mintty. After that I am not able to open gvim. As suggested in same question for emacs I use:
1) mintty gvim
this opens a new window with message :
E233: cannot open displayE852: The child process failed to start the GUI
Press ENTER or type command to continue
Also I have set : export DISPLAY=":0"
what I am doing wrong
You probably don't have an X server running. Look here for instructions on setting it up. Personally, I find it easier to just uninstall the cygwin version of gvim and use the windows version instead.
I had the same problem when starting gvim and was getting the error message as above.
My default DISPLAY setting is :0.0
However, I noticed in the output of my startxwin, that it said
"""
Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none"
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=:2.0
winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=:2.0
winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
"""
I set my display to :2.0 and it works now.
ie
export DISPLAY=:2.0
Hope this helps.
[Further to this, the script seems to check /tmp/.X11-unix/Xn where n in Xn is a number.
It seems I had X0 and X1 already there, probably leftover from an older bad shutdown.
Deleting this seems to restore it back to using :0.0
]
you can define a function in your .bash_profile (you need to make sure gvim.exe is in your $PATH)
vim() {
echo "cygstart gvim.exe --remote-tab-silent $(cygpath -w "$#")"
cygstart gvim.exe --remote-tab-silent $(cygpath -w "$#")
}
For me, gvim was being picked up from /usr/bin/gvim
I installed gvim as a windows application and then invoked it from its windows path directly as
[cygwin$] /cygdrive/C/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Vim/vim74/gvim
And it worked.
Like user2250246, I just punted on trying to get cygwin's gvim to start working again, but I didn't want to type or alias gvim. (Which I probably should've. The alias is easier.)
I added the Windows app's gvim's path to my Windows environment variables:
Get the path to gvim by finding its icon in your Start menu and
right-clicking on it, then opening Properties. Find the Target link
and copy all but the final 'gvim.exe'.
Go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment
Variables -> System variables. Select Path. Click Edit.
Paste in that path at the start. Click OK. Click OK.
Then Cygwin will put your Windows gvim on its path, but it will put /usr/bin ahead of it on its own path. So
mv /usr/bin/gvim /usr/bin/gvim-screwed-up
mv /usr/bin/gvimdiff /usr/bin/gvimdiff-screwed-up
and your cygwin will find & run the Windows-installed gvim, with or without your cygwin X server running.
Unfortunately, it will no longer load your cygwin .vimrc! You'll have to fix that yourself.
Sometimes I have the need to modify files that are in a FTP server, currently I have Filezilla opening them in sublime. But I'm moving to VIM and I haven't found a way to make the file open in VIM console. Probably works flawless for gVim but anyone have this working on the console?
I managed to have a console pop up with vim by invoking a custom shell script wrapper instead of vim itself.
#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal -e "vim $1"
One of the drawbacks is that everytime a new window will pop up. Hope this helps.
This topic is quite old but Vim stays the best ! So, I'd like to share my experience.
I'm using Guake Terminal and Vim v8 on a Debian 9.2 environment. The solution posted by #soulseekah is great but does not allow multiple files open in this configuration.
As the accepted solution, we will need a bash script. The difference will be that we check if vim is running. If no, run it. If yes, open the file in a new tab.
Here we go :
#!/bin/bash
if pgrep -x "vim" > /dev/null ; then
guake -e ":tabedit $1";
else
guake -e "vim $1"
fi
Downsides :
Need to be in normal mode to open new files.
Not working with gnome-terminal.
Enjoy guys !
I use Midnight Commander to do the same thing & it works with console Vim as well as a lot of very useful other commands.
on windows exist command:
start myfile.mp3
start myfile.txt
on mac:
open myfile.mp3
open myfile.txt
Are there analogue command under Ubuntu?
xdg-open if you have a freedesktop.org-compatible environment.
There are several commands in Linux that help you open application associated files. If you know the application to open the file, then this may work . I am not sure if you are looking for this
env DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox "google.com"
opens Firefox with google.com opened in it. You can replace the application name and file name and use this command.
Try "gnome-open", for Gnome powered distros.
gnome-open random-file.torrent will open my torrent app.