On Dec 5 11:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 4 14:29, Carles Cufi wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After some discussion with Matt Wozniski I've come to the conclusion that > > the default global config file for vim (/usr/share/vim/vimrc) included with > > Cygwin differs quite importantly from the ones included in other UNIX-like > > operating systems like Linux or Mac OS X (and yes, I know Cygwin is not an > > OS...) > > The key difference is that Cygwin does not set the "nocompatible" flag by > > default, something the other two OSs do. This results in old style vi-like > > behavior when editing with vim, which I personally feel is undesirable. > > I would therefore suggest to include the "nocompatible" flag set by default > > when installing Cygwin. > > Well, no. What you get is exactly what is produced by `make install` > from the vanilla sources. It's quite easy to do what you want by > adding "set compatible" to your ~/.vimrc.
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