On 8 November 2010 22:46, Harrington, John wrote: > 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.
Which terminal are you using? What's the TERM setting? Are you sure you're using Cygwin vim, i.e. what does 'which vim' say? Also: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Andy -- 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
