On 4/10/2015 2:21 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2015-04-09, René Berber wrote:
>> Why vim on Cygwin doesn't install, or use if you add one, /etc/vimrc? > > Executing > $ vim --version > shows > system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc" > user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" > 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" > user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" > fall-back for $VIM: "/etc" > f-b for $VIMRUNTIME: "/usr/share/vim/vim74" > From within vim, > :echo $VIM > shows > /usr/share/vim ... > So, Cygwin's vim looks for the system vimrc at /usr/share/vim/vimrc, > not /etc/vimrc. ... > Personally, I really like that Cygwin does not include a system > vimrc in its vim package. Two points: 1. Users expect things to work out-of-the-box. As shown by this thread vim is not. 2. If there is a standard, it should be used. Moving from Linux to Cygwin should be transparent, but in the former there is an /etc/vimrc, in the later there isn't, and even more confusing: if you add one it doesn't work (for the reason you showed). ... > I don't understand what you mean that the 5th line doesn't work and > has to be commented. It means that if you leave it, vim will complain when you start it: "Error detected while processing /etc/virc: line 5: E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax on" > I have "syntax on" in my ~/.vimrc file and > syntax highlighting works just fine. Corinna already pointed that out. The point is: why does it work when in ~/.vimrc, and not on /etc/virc (not a typo, /etc/vimrc is not used at all, another deviation from the standard?). Thanks for your reply, but this thread is getting off-topic. -- René Berber -- 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
