Here’s the original script:

“/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Vim/vim63/vim.exe” `cygpath -w $1`

Here’s a more useful variation (assuming the Bash shell):

“/cygdrive…/vim.exe” $(cygpath -w — $*) &

Cygpath ignores options after the “–”.

I do not really like to post such plain advertizes, but I think the script I’m maintening, cyg-wrapper.sh, could solve both your problems. (If I understand how the blog works, just click on my name to access to the script).

Regarding Vim, look at the example given on the web page. Regarding cvs, declare -m as a binary-argument. BTW, Vim plugin, cvsmenu, is quite addictive — though I have used it only on Solaris.

NB: As cyg-wrapper is just a bash script, it may take some time when to many filenames need to be converted.

HTH.

vi(){ # windows.
vifile=${@:-$vifile}; # use last file or argv
vifile=$(cygpath -m $@) # dos paths
c:/bin32/gvim $vifile &
}

I too just started using cygwin and tortoise-cvs.

I knew about the “-m” command, but also, under windows, one can use Tortoise CVS, you then have a nice GUI to take care of all your CVS trouble. But I remain a command line freak. So I should get in the habit of using -m, it is probably faster in the long run anyhow.

Use message as log information, instead of invoking an editor.

Available with the following commands: add, commit and import.

From cvs man page.