On 2020-12-21, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > Despite best efforts I cannot find a way of setting user preferences for vi > (e.g. preferred syntax-sensitive settings) > and gnuplot (e.g. preferred line colours / thickness). > I have tried editing /etc/vimrc, /etc/virc for vi; and > /etc/X11/app-defaults/Gnuplot for gnuplot accordingly. > (I use gnuplot-x11.) No change from standard representation. > Any ideas?
If you are really using /usr/bin/vi and not /usr/bin/vim, then you are using the small version of vim, which does not support filetype detection or syntax highlighting as well as some other vim features. If you want a full-featured vim, install the vim package. Regards, Gary -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
