On 2015-04-10, René Berber wrote: > 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.
It does work out of the box. It just may not be configured as you'd like. But your point is well taken. If vim is pre-configured on Red Hat or Ubuntu systems, then for most users it should probably be pre-configured on Cygwin. I can work around it. > 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). The Red Hat standard is /etc/vimrc. The Ubuntu standard is /usr/share/vim/vimrc. > > 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" In most distributions, vi is vim-small or vim-tiny. In Fedora and Cygwin, vi is vim-small. In Ubuntu, the vim version installed as vi apparently depends on which vim package(s) you have installed and may be vim-tiny or vim-huge. The tiny and small versions do not support syntax highlighting. See the output of ":version". Also see ":help :version" for a list of which features are supported in which versions. You should not expect "syntax on" or any other vim command not found in the original vi to work in /etc/virc. > 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?). Which configuration files are read depends on whether you execute "vi" or "vim". Regards, Gary -- 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
