2013/5/17 Gary Johnson wrote: > This is not a bug. See Yaakov's announcement in the list on May 12, > "[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.943-1". He explains that the > packaging scheme has been changed and that /usr/bin/vi is now Vim > compiled with the "small" feature set. The "small" feature set does > not include the +syntax or +eval feature and does not support either > the :syntax or :let command. > > If you want to use those commands, run vim and not vi, or alias vi > to vim. If you want to use the "small" vi, you'll have to adjust > your ~/.vimrc to avoid using commands that are not supported. See
The reason that it occurs now is that vim-minimal has been added to Base recently. That results in the situation you describe. It is discussed on the cygwin-apps mailing list as well [1]. It probably can be fixed by using alternatives, but Yaakov is AFK so he has not been able to respond yet. Regards, Frank [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-05/msg00045.html and follow ups -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple