Jindan,

Yes, replacement is trivially easy in each of these scripts in order to use the cygwin version of vim instead of the native Win32 gvim. Simply everywhere it currently calls c:\some_path\bin\vim, replace it with c:\your_cygwin_path\bin\rxvt -e vim.

For instance, in my case, my Cygwin root is in d:\cygwin. I would replace this line:

ed = r"c:\vim\vim62\gvim.exe"   # *vi*  editor binary

with this one:

ed = r"d:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e vim"   # *vi*  editor binary

Just tested it, done and done. So the Python version is figured out; you'd need to adjust it similarly if you were to use Weed's Visual Basic version on the parent page. I'm not using either one anymore, at the moment, because I'm so sick of Outlook. I went back to using OfflineIMAP + Mutt on a Cygwin managed mount because it's so much faster, and I can run it remotely without having to use some sort of remote desktop. If I get an appointment in my inbox that requires their synchronization tool, I note the time of the appointment in my Palm Pilot, and next time I'm in the office I might fire up Outlook to confirm the appointment (or just show up; people around here rarely seem to care if you actually RSVP for the meeting or not).

Curiously, my new company's Exchange server doesn't create nearly the havoc with offlineimap that the old one did. I wonder if they improved their IMAP support in the latest version?

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Matthew P. Barnson