how to set default working directory in vim and cygwin?

Question

My system is gvim 7.4+xp+cygwin.

Everytime i open vim or cygwin,input pwd

pwd in cygwin to get :
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/sy

I want to set the default directory /cygdrive/c/workspace
pwd in gvim to get :
c:/Documents and Settings/sy

I want to set the default directory c:/workspace
How can i make the setup in vim and cygwin?

1.i created a file named .bash_profile ,add two lines cd /cygdrive/c/workspace
echo "hallo world "

no effect at all.

2.i add cd /cygdrive/c/workspace in the file profile,the wrong output is : -bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: $'\r': command not found
': not a valid identifier
-bash: $'\r': command not found
-bash: /etc/profile: line 104: syntax error near unexpected token $'\r''
'bash: /etc/profile: line 104:profile_d ()
-bash-4.1$

Answer 1

For Cygwin, put

cd /cygdrive/c/workspace

in ~/.bash_profile.

Or, maybe what you want to do is to make /cygdrive/c/workspace your home directory; by default that's where a Cygwin shell will start. To do that, edit the entry for your user in /etc/passwd. Then restart the Cygwin shell.

For gvim, create a shortcut to start gvim, right-click on it, go to Properties..., then enter C:/workspace in the "Start in" field.