Correctly passing a path from zsh (cygwin) to vim on windows

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I have the following alias/function in my .zshrc to open gvim with file names as arguments.

vim() { if [[ $# -ge 1 ]]; then gvim "$*"; else gvim; fi }

It opens files in ~ just fine, but when I try to pass a path, it doesn't work. For example, from a zsh I say vim ~/dir/test1.txt (a file which exists on C:\Users\myname\dir\test1.txt) and gvim opens with the following file \c\Users\myname\dir\test1.txt [NEW DIRECTORY] which doesn't exist? How can I fix this issue?

artem · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-18 01:27:26Z

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cygpath might help here, like this:

gvim `cygpath -w $*`

answered Apr 18, 2013 at 1:27

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Diego Over a year ago

fantastic! thanks so much for this should have rtfm but you got it!

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