Greetings, Paul King! > I sent an earlier message to the list (or possibly to the vim list) > about my problems in getting the vundle distro to work under the vim > text editor. I am glad to report that the problem is solved, and this > is what I found:
> This is a "cygwin" problem, although not necessarily a bug; more like > a PEBCAK problem in the package selection stage, as there are 3 vim > packages to choose from. > The "vim" command is a different "vim" than the "vi" command. Both are > "vim", but come from different vim packages. In Linux and other *nix > systems, vi is symbolically linked to vim, but not in this case. It is _commonly_ linked to vim, but that really only because most of the distros you've worked with have full version of vim installed by default. Cygwin offers vim (full) and vim-minimal packages. If you intend to use full one, I suggest you remove vim-minimal and make a familiar symlink for vi. You can find more details, and the reason behind the change, in the list archives for this year. > These > are different copies of vim, and both look in different places for the > .*rc file. I found that "vi" looks first in ~/.virc and second in > ~/.vim/vimrc. When you install vundle. the second place is a > directory, causing "vi" to choke. Even when that is corrected, it > doesn't know how to handle the Bundle command, and you get a wild > flurry of error messages. That is to be expected. > vim, however, looks first in ~/.vimrc which exists, and in turn > sources files under ~/.vim/vimrc. It waits a few moments, then opens > your file. This is consistent with my experience with vim/vundle under > other OS'es. > So, for me it was just a matter of logging in with my Administrator > account, then moving "vi" to "_vi"; then agreeing with custom, linking > vim symbolically to vi. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 14.10.2013, <08:55> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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