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Re: 1.7.35: possible backspace key and arrow keys bug
- From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn at spocom dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:35:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: 1.7.35: possible backspace key and arrow keys bug
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On 2015-04-10, René Berber wrote:
> On 4/10/2015 2:21 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2015-04-09, René Berber wrote:
>
> >> Why vim on Cygwin doesn't install, or use if you add one, /etc/vimrc?
> >
> > Executing
> > $ vim --version
> > shows
> > system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
> > user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
> > 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
> > user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
> > fall-back for $VIM: "/etc"
> > f-b for $VIMRUNTIME: "/usr/share/vim/vim74"
> > From within vim,
> > :echo $VIM
> > shows
> > /usr/share/vim
> ...
> > So, Cygwin's vim looks for the system vimrc at /usr/share/vim/vimrc,
> > not /etc/vimrc.
> ...
> > Personally, I really like that Cygwin does not include a system
> > vimrc in its vim package.
>
> Two points:
>
> 1. Users expect things to work out-of-the-box. As shown by this thread
> vim is not.
It does work out of the box. It just may not be configured as you'd
like. But your point is well taken. If vim is pre-configured on
Red Hat or Ubuntu systems, then for most users it should probably be
pre-configured on Cygwin. I can work around it.
> 2. If there is a standard, it should be used. Moving from Linux to
> Cygwin should be transparent, but in the former there is an /etc/vimrc,
> in the later there isn't, and even more confusing: if you add one it
> doesn't work (for the reason you showed).
The Red Hat standard is /etc/vimrc. The Ubuntu standard is
/usr/share/vim/vimrc.
> > I don't understand what you mean that the 5th line doesn't work and
> > has to be commented.
>
> It means that if you leave it, vim will complain when you start it:
>
> "Error detected while processing /etc/virc:
> line 5:
> E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syntax on"
In most distributions, vi is vim-small or vim-tiny. In Fedora and
Cygwin, vi is vim-small. In Ubuntu, the vim version installed as vi
apparently depends on which vim package(s) you have installed and
may be vim-tiny or vim-huge.
The tiny and small versions do not support syntax highlighting. See
the output of ":version". Also see ":help :version" for a list of
which features are supported in which versions. You should not
expect "syntax on" or any other vim command not found in the
original vi to work in /etc/virc.
> The point is: why does it work when in ~/.vimrc, and not on /etc/virc
> (not a typo, /etc/vimrc is not used at all, another deviation from the
> standard?).
Which configuration files are read depends on whether you execute
"vi" or "vim".
Regards,
Gary
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