The recent installation of vim lacks the default startup file that earlier vesions had. So: place in your home directory (/home/alec/ or whatever) a file called .vimrc (note the dot) containing
set nocompatible set backspace=indent,eol,start set backup set history=50 set ruler set background=dark set showcmd set incsearch syntax on set hlsearch or, to make it accessible to all users, put these lines in a file called vimrc (no dot) in the /usr/share/vim/ directory. Hope this helps. (I don't know which lines cause the syntax hghlighting -- probably just line -1? -- but the other lines seem to make vim work in the way I'm used to, anyway.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
