Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/12/05/16:27:13
Fair enough.
I have to say that it can be a bit confusing for people who are used to standard Linux distributions and Mac OS X when they start using Cygwin, but I understand your point.
Thanks!
Carles
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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 10:48:35 AM
Subject: Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin
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
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