Re: Unix/DOS text mode?

["Joshua" <jle at post dot com>]

    Corinna,

    Thanks for the enlightenment.  Regarding your statement, 'These files
must be in binary mode on Cygwin regardless of the bin/textmode of the
underlying mount point.', what files are you referring to?  I would
understand if the Cygwin files, ie config files in /etc need to be binary,
but are you saying that Cygwin needs to deal with all files (like
/cygwin/c/autoexec.bat) in a binary mode?  Or could the vim packaged with
Cygwin be set to autodetect the binary/text type?  My understanding of how
vim/gvim worked was that it would detect the binary/text type and preserve
the type when you edit save the file.  BCNU//jle


From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:28:25 +0100
Subject: Re: Unix/DOS text mode?
References: <000f01c17193$e7b4c6c0$2ae61718@bdfrd1.tx.home.com>

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:20:59AM -0600, Joshua wrote:
>     Hmm, I've noticed this difference between the PC version of vim/gvim
> versus the vim that comes with cygwin.  Using the PC version, vim/gvim
seems
> to be able to tell whether you're opening a unix file or a PC file and
> display/edit appropriately.
>
>     I tried copying my _vimrc from my PC installation to .vimrc in my home
> directory, but that doesn't do the trick.  I figured it was either a
switch
> in vimrc or something to do with the mounts themselves.  BCNU//jle

The Cygwin vim has the same ability to recognize Unix/DOS files
as the Windows native version.  After a discussion with Bram Moolenaar
he decided not to add that recognition to the vim script files
as .vimrc.  These files must be in binary mode on Cygwin regardless
of the bin/textmode of the underlying mount point.

Corinna

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