Handy Hack: Run vim for Windows under Cygwin

UPDATED 30/Jan/09. With apologies for any confusion, previous example was completely wrong

For reasons I cant quite remember running the Windows gvim.exe binary directly from bash can lead to problems parsing path names. So I created an function as follows:

function gvim() { (
unset a
for i in "$@"; do
    case $i in
        -*)a=" $i $a";;
         *) if [[ -f $i ]] ; then
  a=" $a $(cygpath --absolute --dos "$i" )"
     else
  touch "$i" &&
  a=" $a $(cygpath --absolute "$i" )" &&
  rm -f "$i"|| echo "failed"
     fi
    esac
done
/progra~1/vim/vim72/gvim.exe $a&)}