using cygwin's Perl from within gvim

[Jörg Schaible]

Lyle wrote on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:28 AM:
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> I'm using VIM 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Mar 24 2002
> 16:04:44) MS-Windows 32 bit GUI version with OLE support on Windows
> XP. 
> 
> Any ideas?

Yes. GVIM is not a Cygwin application and will provide perl with a temporary file name in DOSish format. Since Cygwin's perl expect files in standard Unix format, this won't work. For GVIM use a Win32-aware perl from the perl home page or from ActiveState.

Regards,
Jörg