Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/07/01:21:31
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Fergus on Linux wrote:
>>That should not happen. Do you still have the setup.log file from that
>>run of setup.exe, or have you already run setup again since then? Also,
>>send you /etc/setup/installed.db file, please.
>>
>
> Thank you very much for your kind interest.
>
> I enclose as attachments to this email both the files setup.log and
> installed.db as they are after a single run of setup.exe as a new user
> installing Cygwin for the first time from the network.
>
> By a "broken" vim I mean [at least] (a) strange lack of information about
> mode: "INSERT" not shown at bottom of screen even when in insert mode; (b)
> first use of <UpArrow> seems equivalent to <Esc>; (c) loss of syntax
> colours. I have checked that TERM=cygwin: it does.
Okay, this is not what I thought you were talking about. I thought
"broken" vim meant a popup window that said "Can't find
cygncurses5.dll", and vim wasn't runnable at all. *THAT'S* the thread
you refered to.
Your vim "works" -- it just doesn't work like the the old 5.7 version
did. Well, that has nothing to do with libncurses -- I'm sorry I misled
you. This is probably due to massive internal changes in vim, as it went
from version 5 to version 6 (note that alpha and beta test phases of
vim6 took over a year! so there's bound to be lots of changes).
I think you're going to have to take this up on the vim mailing list; it
is doubtful that these changes are due to anything cygwin specific.
>
> PS. I suppose the problem could lie with vim v.6 or term* rather than the
> installation procedure?
I don't think it's the terminfo database. Very little changed therein
in the recent update.
> (There seem to be several problems with vim reported
> recently.)
Most of the recent reports were much more serious: "vim won't start" or
"missing DLL". Your report is "merely" a fit-and-finish issue.
> Or with me! Such a bother: I've observed regular if infrequent
> complaints about setup.exe on the mailing list, and always dismissed them as
> symptoms of user-brain/-digit dysfunction rather than any inherent fault in
> setup.exe. Now I'm in the same situation myself. Thanks again for your
> response.
Again, I think that setup.exe is not the culprit in your case --
especially as your later private email showed no improvement in these
fit-and-finish issues after reinstalling libncurses5.
Suggestion: assume that the problem is your .vimrc, and begin debugging
from there. I wonder if old .vimrc's are somehow incompatible (older
vim's supported keywords that newer vim's do not? Therefore if you use
one of those "bad" keywords you have problems, but since I (by luck)
avoid them -- whatever they are -- I don't see your problems?)
Anyway, this looks like a vim issue, not cygwin nor setup nor ncurses.
--Chuck
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