On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > >> We just tried that. > >> One user complained that the Windows client didn't hide passwords >> he typed in (displayed the whole thing in plain text instead of >> displaying *s), > Sorry to say so, but this can't be cause the SVN client hides on console as > well...and also on Windows...I don't know what the user really did?...May be > he mistaken the username input with the password input? > >> and he couldn't commit because the client was >> unable to find "vim" although it was installed under Cygwin. > First installed under Cygwin is not installed under windwos. These are two > different worlds. > > Furthermore if the user has correctly set the SVN_EDITOR or EDITOR > environment variable correctly to SVN_EDITOR=C:\...WhatEver\vim.exe this > will work...But this has to be done first...usually on a Unix like system > the EDITOR variable is set to default editor vi... > This default does not exist on Windows systems....
Whether Cygwin is "Windows" is..... an interesting problem in definitions. It's precisely the sort of problem I mentioned. No idea why or how the passwords were appearing in CygWin. But CygWin has "vim" available: Mine has it installed, and it works fine. I'm really confused which "vim" he expected to use: one installed in Windows natively, or the one in CygWin? >> In short, he found the Windows-native version unusable and went >> back to the Cygwin version. > >> Any idea what might have caused those issues? > As described above... Sounds like your friend should be asking here himself.....
