In my Windows environment, VIM and VIMRUNTIME are regular environment variables that I can edit like any others. If that doesn't work, maybe they're defined in your shell's RC file?
Salman On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 17:18 John Cordes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! 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