gvim wrapper for Cygwin (makes it easy to use the Win32 gvim.exe from the Cygwin shell)

gvim

#!/bin/sh
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# Windows gvim wrapper for Cygwin
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# Copyright (c) 2016 James O'Doherty
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GVIM=gvim.bat               # Assume Windows VIM has commandline files
                            # installed on the PATH

export HOME="$USERPROFILE"  # Ensure Windows VIM uses correct
                            # user-specific vimfiles

# Convert Cygwin paths to Windows paths
args=""
for arg in "$@"
do
  case $arg in
    /*)
      args="$args '$(cygpath -l -w "$arg")'";;
    *)
      args="$args '$arg'";;
  esac
done
eval "'$GVIM' $args"