>> 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?
>The first thing I would check is whether you have an individual ~/.virc or >~/.gnuplot file that is overriding the settings of interest. > For gnuplot, at least, the man page says that its "show loadpath" command > will indicate where it looks for gnuplotrc. > On my system that is /usr/share/gnuplot/5.4/. > Since my gnuplot offers x11 for "set term", I think I'm looking at the right > thing, but if gnuplot-x11 is truly different, > then maybe try the "show loadpath" command for it. I don't have vi installed > (only vim) so I can't speak to that. > The next thing I would check are the various permissions, to make sure the > program can actually read the file(s) in question. > Maybe you have done all this, in which case I'm sorry my ideas were not > helpful ... > Best wishes - Eliot Moss Thank you! For gnuplot your suggestion worked perfectly. I have now tweaked /usr/share/gnuplot/5.4/gnuplotrc as required. Perplexed by your "vim not vi". I set up my Cygwin platform using setup -P and do not specify any editor beyond nano (which is perfect to my needs). Nevertheless I get vi. From "Package search" I'm guessing it comes as an adjunct because I also need groff and latex. You must actually specify vim? which I vaguely recall preferring to vi but cannot remember why. (Mainly, I liked neither. But I can remember easily setting and locating /etc/vimrc, and that it was properly picked up.) Nevertheless, still having problems with setting and location virc - since I've got vi, I'd just like to be able to use it effectively .. .. Thanks again, anyway. -- 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
