Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

2006-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:43:45PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On 10/11/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does. >>Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy >>of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas

Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

2006-10-13 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On 10/11/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does. Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thing to include, even if they were only examples. This lo

Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

2006-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:39:59PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly >>does. Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the >>philosophy of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thin

Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

2006-10-11 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does. > Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy > of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thing to include, > even if they were only examples. I'll see about

FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

2006-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:23:56PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>>I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created >>>with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is >>>created with POSIX filenames there is no problem. >> >>Well of cour