Use wsl's bash as shell on Windows 10

[Justus Kidding]

Hi!

I am trying to set up bash as my default shell for vim. However I am not able to get it to work. This is the current setup which allows for commands without arguments to be executed:

if has('win32')
        set shell=bash
        set shellpipe=|
        set shellredir=>
        set shellcmdflag=-c
endif

For example, !ls executes as expected and prints the content of the current directory. However if I wanted to do !ls ~ the following error appears:

:!ls ~
/bin/bash: ls ~: command not found
Shell exited 127

What would be the correct way to setup bash.exe as the shell?

Thanks!

Terra

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Hello,

Quoting my own config verbatim:

if has('win32')

set shell=bash shellcmdflag=-c shellredir=>%s\ 2>&1 shellslash noshelltemp
let &shellxescape = ''
let &shellxquote = has('nvim') ? '' : '"'
let $CYGWIN = 'noglob'
let $MSYS = 'noglob'
endif

Of course, you don't need has('nvim'), $CYGWIN or $MSYS if you have
neither of these.

Also, I'm not sure which one shall be correct for WSL and/or specific
Vim patch: shelltemp or noshelltemp? You may want to try both.

Regards,
Matvey

[Justus Kidding]

Thanks! That worked perfectly! How were you able to figure it out, as in, what was your thought process when writing your config? Asking so I can maybe help myself in the future :)

[M]

ср, 2 февр. 2022 г. в 19:03, Justus Kidding <ichbi...@gmail.com>:

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 1. Type :help 'shell<CR> and read about all options starting with "shell", esp. "default for Unix" value

2. ?

3. PROFIT

Regards,

Matvey

[Justus Kidding]

Maybe to rephrase my second question: Why didn't my config work? I tried to follow the section from "help 'shell'". How do I know which symbols to use?

[M]

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>> 3. PROFIT
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If a command gets wrong then it should probably be something about
quoting. But I cannot tell just like that. So don't be afraid to
experiment and try yourself.

Regards,
Matvey