Thanks for the thought. In Cygwin echo $PATH shows all forward slashes. Did
you mean to somehow edit things like $VIMRUNTIME? I'm not sure how that
would be done.

John


On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM Salman Halim <[email protected]> wrote:

> This may be too simple, but have you tried changing the environment
> variables variables to have forward slashes instead of back slashes?
>
> Salman
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 16:46 John Cordes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping someone can help with a problem. I've had cygwin64 installed
>> for at least a couple of years, with Vim v8 running just fine. I also have
>> Windows Vim running; this is all under Win 10.
>>  I've just updated the cygwin64 installation and vim is now v9.0. When I
>> start the cygwin vim I get these lines:
>>
>> ===========================
>> Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc:
>> line   90:
>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>> Error detected while processing /home/Owner/.vimrc:
>> line    6:
>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>> ===========================
>>
>> Pressing ENTER allows me to continue, editing files, etc. but not
>> surprisingly with no syntax highlighting.
>>
>> :echo $VIMRUNTIME = C:\Users\Owner\_vim/vim90
>> Note the mixed up forward and backward slashes in that path. Note also the
>> * lack* of slashes in the paths reported above as E484.
>>
>>  It seems clear that there is some sort of clash between Unix and Windows
>> path conventions going on but I haven't been able to figure out how to fix
>> it.
>>
>> The file syntax.vim does exist and is in the right location (I think):
>> $ ls -l /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Owner Administrators 1.4K Dec 20 01:57
>> /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>>
>> vim --version includes these lines:
>> VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Dec 20 2023 06:57:02)
>> Included patches: 1-2155
>>    system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc"
>>      user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
>>  2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
>>       user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
>>        defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
>>   fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
>>
>> One more item:
>> :scriptnames
>>   1: /etc/vimrc
>>   2: ~/.vimrc
>>   3: ~/.vim/keymap/insert_only_capslock.vim
>>   4: ~/.vim/bufferlist.vim
>>   5: ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> John Cordes
>>
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