On 20/12/2023 03:47, Beau James via Cygwin wrote:
This problem appeared with my most recent Cygwin update that included an
update to "vim".
My Cygwin installation now show vim version 9.0.2115.
Launching VIM from the shell running in a mintty window using the full
pathname "/usr/bin/vim" works fine.
But launching "/usr/bin/vi" (which has worked fine for many years, until
the most recent update), results in a long string of startup E319 errors:
$ /usr/bin/vi
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim:
line 11:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let
did_load_filetypes = 1
line 14:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let
s:cpo_save = &cpo
line 48:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: func
s:StarSetf(ft)
line 52:
E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: endfunc
etc. etc.
Note that the startup errors appear only when using the full pathname
"/usr/bin/vi". Using the command name alone ("vi") relying on the search
path does not trigger the startup errors; using either the full pathname
"/usr/bin/vim" or the command name alone "vim" relying on the search
path does not trigger the startup errors.
vi is usually an alias to vim
$ alias | grep vi
alias vi='vim'
so you are in reality calling vim
$ which vim
/usr/bin/vim
I am investigating the /usr/bin/vi issue
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