Fair enough. I have to say that it can be a bit confusing for people who are used to standard Linux distributions and Mac OS X when they start using Cygwin, but I understand your point.
Thanks! Carles ----- Original Message ---- From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 10:48:35 AM Subject: Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin 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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
