My apologies for too many posts! I have added the export VIM command to cygwin's .bash_profile; I believe that should do the trick. Many thanks to Salman Halim for the suggestion. John Cordes
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:46 PM John Cordes <john.cor...@dal.ca> wrote: > I tried something based on your original suggestion: > > $ export VIM=/usr/share/vim > > which seems to 'work' (no longer any interruption when opening a file with > vim, and syntax highlighting is working). How would I set this to always be > implemented whenever cygwin is run? > > Thanks, > John > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM Salman Halim <salmanha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In my Windows environment, VIM and VIMRUNTIME are regular environment >> variables that I can edit like any others. If that doesn't work, maybe >> they're defined in your shell's RC file? >> >> Salman >> >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 17:18 John Cordes <john.cor...@dal.ca> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the thought. In Cygwin echo $PATH shows all forward slashes. >>> Did you mean to somehow edit things like $VIMRUNTIME? I'm not sure how that >>> would be done. >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM Salman Halim <salmanha...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> This may be too simple, but have you tried changing the environment >>>> variables variables to have forward slashes instead of back slashes? >>>> >>>> Salman >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 16:46 John Cordes <john.cor...@dal.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm hoping someone can help with a problem. I've had cygwin64 >>>>> installed for at least a couple of years, with Vim v8 running just fine. I >>>>> also have Windows Vim running; this is all under Win 10. >>>>> I've just updated the cygwin64 installation and vim is now v9.0. When >>>>> I start the cygwin vim I get these lines: >>>>> >>>>> =========================== >>>>> Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc: >>>>> line 90: >>>>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>>> Error detected while processing /home/Owner/.vimrc: >>>>> line 6: >>>>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>>> Press ENTER or type command to continue >>>>> =========================== >>>>> >>>>> Pressing ENTER allows me to continue, editing files, etc. but not >>>>> surprisingly with no syntax highlighting. >>>>> >>>>> :echo $VIMRUNTIME = C:\Users\Owner\_vim/vim90 >>>>> Note the mixed up forward and backward slashes in that path. Note also >>>>> the* lack* of slashes in the paths reported above as E484. >>>>> >>>>> It seems clear that there is some sort of clash between Unix and >>>>> Windows path conventions going on but I haven't been able to figure out >>>>> how >>>>> to fix it. >>>>> >>>>> The file syntax.vim does exist and is in the right location (I think): >>>>> $ ls -l /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Owner Administrators 1.4K Dec 20 01:57 >>>>> /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>>> >>>>> vim --version includes these lines: >>>>> VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Dec 20 2023 06:57:02) >>>>> Included patches: 1-2155 >>>>> system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc" >>>>> user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" >>>>> 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" >>>>> user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" >>>>> defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim" >>>>> fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim" >>>>> >>>>> One more item: >>>>> :scriptnames >>>>> 1: /etc/vimrc >>>>> 2: ~/.vimrc >>>>> 3: ~/.vim/keymap/insert_only_capslock.vim >>>>> 4: ~/.vim/bufferlist.vim >>>>> 5: ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for any help! >>>>> >>>>> John Cordes >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. >>>>> Do not top-post! 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