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 >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. >> Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. >> For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "vim_use" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/QB1PR01MB29933933E4C6D2C0145DDA0B9E4C2%40QB1PR01MB2993.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/QB1PR01MB29933933E4C6D2C0145DDA0B9E4C2%40QB1PR01MB2993.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CANuxnEeF0f_A2%2BfXGS6oZRn_%3Ds17W7yDfyCORm3D68AD2GjAZw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CANuxnEeF0f_A2%2BfXGS6oZRn_%3Ds17W7yDfyCORm3D68AD2GjAZw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAGZBEdTa-CCta_7kJNcDxzwcSn%3DsTu_45OSx%2B3zwZjs%2BDPRZbA%40mail.gmail.com.
