Using Windows Vim from Cygwin

It's nice to use the Windows gvim from Cygwin, because you don't need to have X windows running. It turns out to be fairly easy.

Here's a script called gvim.sh:

    #!/bin/ksh
    if [[ $1 == "-" ]]
    then
       # note that this can't go into the background because stdin gets lost
       /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim64/gvim.exe -
    else
       /c/Program\ Files/vim/vim64/gvim.exe $(cygpath -w $*) &
    fi

The cygpath utility converts the Cygwin paths to Windows paths that make sense to the Windows version of Vim.