cygwin, latex, and vim

[Earnie Boyd]

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Homer wrote:
> > >
> > > I was curios if anyone had the same prob and found a fix:
> > >
> > > When Latex runs, and drops to a ? prompt, one hit's "e" to edit the file
> > > at the line of error
> > >
> > > In the 2.0 cygwin, when I hit e, it goes into vim and looks normal,
> > > but any command such as :q responds with bash: :q command not found
> > >
> > > it seems that it opens the vi displays the file, and vi then drops to the
> > > background
> > >
> > > I've tried various TERM setting with vi -T, tried cmd.exe /K vim ...
> > > but can't seem to fix the behaviour
> > >
> > > any suggestions ?
> > >
> >
> > I'm going to assume that by 2.0 cygwin you mean version B20 since
> > version 2.0 doesn't exist.  If that is the case then you definitely need
> > to update using http://cygwin.com/setup.exe before anyone can help
> > further.
> >
Jeff Homer wrote:
> 
> I installed the version that the "Install Cygwin Now" puts on, all
> updated- my bad, it's version 1.1.8 it seems :|
> 

Ok.  Hmm...  I've seen this behavior before.  What happens is that both
LaTeX and vim have control of the console fd's.  You may have to debug
this yourself.  First try a the most recent snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snaphots/ to see if the problem may be fixed already.

Earnie.

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