> I just put your in.vim in my ~/vimfiles/ftdetect directory and 'ft' > was set to "make" when I executed "vim foo.in" as it should. I also > verified that 'ft' was not set when opening foo.in before I created > in.vim. So it works for me.
Hrmm.... thank you for checking. > I don't see anything wrong with your setup for sharing configuration > files between Windows and Cygwin, but instead of modifying 'rtp', I > put all my personal configuration files in ~/vimfiles and created > ~/.vim as a Cygwin symbolic link to ~/vimfiles. I assume that > you've verified that your scheme works for other configuration > files, just not for ftdetect files. You might try executing > > :scriptnames In Cygwin vim I get: 1: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/csutclif/.vimrc 2: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syntax.vim 3: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/synload.vim 4: /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/syncolor.vim 5: /usr/share/vim/vim72/filetype.vim 6: /usr/share/vim/vim72/ftplugin.vim 7: /usr/share/vim/vim72/indent.vim 8: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/csutclif/vimfiles/colors/ironhead.vim 9: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/csutclif/vimfiles/plugin/taglist.vim 10: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim 11: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/gzip.vim 12: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/matchparen.vim 13: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim 14: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/rrhelper.vim 15: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/spellfile.vim 16: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/tarPlugin.vim 17: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/tohtml.vim 18: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim 19: /usr/share/vim/vim72/plugin/zipPlugin.vim So the taglist plugin is getting loaded, but the ftdetect scripts are suspiciously missing (they do list if I execute :scriptnames in the native Windows GVim). I've checked file permissions and they match the taglist.vim plugin, so I'm at a loss as to how to correct the behaviour at this point. Could it be perhaps the spaces in the path? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---