I recently upgraded vim in cygwin from vim63 to vim73. I am running cygwin (with vim) on a Windows XP (version 5.1, sp3) machine.
My problem is that syntax highlighting, which has worked fine for me in every previous version of vim suddenly doesn't not work. I have not modified my vimrc files, so I'm at a loss to know what has changed. I have looked at the vim documentation and some online tutorials. I seem to be doing everything I need to do to get syntax coloring to work. I have turned on syntax in the /usr/share/vim/vimrc and in my .vimrc file in my home directory. I have tried explicitly typing :syntax on in vim. I have tried replacing my vimrc files with sample vimrc files that are supposed to work. I have tried explicitly indicating syntax with the :set syn=<syntax-type> command. Nothing seems to make a difference. Looking in /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax, I see all of the syntax files there, including the file types I'm testing (such as python.vim, etc.). The cygwin window can represent colors just fine. For example, ls --color works, but nothing I do seems to turn syntax coloring on. There is nothing extraordinary about my installation of cygwin or vim or the configuration of my machine, so I'm guessing this is a problem many cygwin/vim users have had, but perhaps there's something that makes me unique. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know. What should I try next? Thanks. Best regards, John -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
