Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin [Attn base-files maintainer]

2006-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 5 22:39, Eric Blake wrote: >> Is it worth the base-files maintainer providing a default .vimrc file that >> gets installed alongside all the other default .*rc files for new users? > > Sure! It shouldn't contain too esoteric stuff, though, just a few basic > sett

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin [Attn base-files maintainer]

2006-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 5 22:39, Eric Blake wrote: > Is it worth the base-files maintainer providing a default .vimrc file that > gets installed alongside all the other default .*rc files for new users? Sure! It shouldn't contain too esoteric stuff, though, just a few basic settings like, say, autoindent, nocomp

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin [Attn base-files maintainer]

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to DePriest, Jason R. on 12/5/2006 3:06 PM: > > It was indeed confusing to me when I started using Cygwin. > > I copied my vimrc file from my Debian GNU/Linux system to my Cygwin > system and that fixed it (and a few other issues I have wit

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

2006-12-05 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 12/5/06, Carles Cufi wrote: 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 It was indeed confusing to me when I started using Cygwin

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

2006-12-05 Thread Carles Cufi
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 vi

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

2006-12-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

2006-12-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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 sy

Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

2006-12-04 Thread Carles Cufi
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 Cy