when the current release version of vim is installed with the current release version of terminfo, running vim makes the following complaint:
E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo 'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are: builtin_riscos builtin_amiga builtin_beos-ansi builtin_ansi builtin_pcansi builtin_win32 builtin_vt320 builtin_vt52 builtin_xterm builtin_iris-ansi builtin_debug builtin_dumb defaulting to 'ansi' this problem has been reported twice before on this mailing list with respect to earlier versions of terminfo and vim: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00070.html From: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju at bluebottle dot com> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:27:17 -0700 Subject: running vim on cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-05/msg00313.html From: Trevor Osatchuk <fybar27 at gmail dot com> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 22:59:22 -0600 Subject: Help with error in vi and man for now, reverting to the previous version of terminfo works to keep vim quiet. vim: current version: 7.2-3 terminfo: current version: 5.7_20090228-1 previous version: 5.5_20061104-1 -- james pentland loth...@warpmail.net -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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/