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Date: | Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:48:35 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin |
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On Dec 4 14:29, Carles Cufi wrote: > Hi there, > > After some discussion with Matt Wozniski I've come to the conclusion that the default global config file for vim (/usr/share/vim/vimrc) included with Cygwin differs quite importantly from the ones included in other UNIX-like operating systems like Linux or Mac OS X (and yes, I know Cygwin is not an OS...) > The key difference is that Cygwin does not set the "nocompatible" flag by default, something the other two OSs do. This results in old style vi-like behavior when editing with vim, which I personally feel is undesirable. > I would therefore suggest to include the "nocompatible" flag set by default when installing Cygwin. Well, no. What you get is exactly what is produced by `make install` from the vanilla sources. It's quite easy to do what you want by adding "set compatible" to your ~/.vimrc. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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