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Loki Kriasus
Loki Kriasus

Reputation: 1301

Setting up Powershell as Vim's shell: command does not seem to be passed correctly

I am trying to set up Powershell as shell in GVIM on Windows.

When I do :!ls, I get a vimrun.exe window with the command I am running, which seems to be doing nothing. It stays like that until I close it.

vimrun.exe output

My .vimrc configuration:

set shell=powershell
set shellcmdflag=-command
set shellquote=\"
set shellxquote=

Nothing interferes with it: when I do :verbose set shell? shellcmdflag? shellquote? shellxquote? I get the values set above.

When I remove vimrun.exe from %PATH%, I get a Powershell window, which is just empty (no output in it) with same behavior.

The command itself is fine - when I execute it manually from cmd, it works as expected.

When Vim shell is set to cmd, everything works as expected as well.

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Upvotes: 7

Views: 8106

Answers (1)

Loki Kriasus
Loki Kriasus

Reputation: 1301

Turns out the issue was in 32-bit powershell not working correctly on my system (yet to figure out why). I changed set shell=powershell to:

set shell=C:\\WINDOWS\\sysnative\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe

That launches 64-bit powershell, which works fine on my system.

Upvotes: 4

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