Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 18:13:03 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-6.0.46-1 Message-ID: <20011104181303.Y17306@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011104113853.009f0ec0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011104113853.009f0ec0@pop.mail.yahoo.com>; from tjclose@yahoo.com on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:02:32PM -0400 On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:02:32PM -0400, Tyler Close wrote: > I am also having the startup time issues that Scott Brim reported in: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-10/msg00890.html > > I am running Cygwin on Windows 98 (not the second edition). I have updated > the vim package to your latest release vim-6.0.46-1. > > When vim starts, the Cygwin window title switches rapidly between vim and > bash. The number of switches seems to be proportional to the number of > commands in the .vimrc file. The default vimrc that comes with the > distribution causes several switches and I get more switches as I add more > settings. If I run the Cygwin vim from an MS-DOS shell, instead of bash, I > get several errors of the type: > > E79: Cannot expand wildcards > > Cannot execute shell sh > > I do not get this behaviour if I run the command line vim available from > vim.org. There is also no noticeable delay in starting up the command line > vim from vim.org. > > I am guessing that a seperate sh process is being started to execute each > of the commands in .vimrc and that this is the source of the long startup time. What a funny idea. - The .vimrc file does not start any subshell as long as there's no :sh commmand or such. - There's no default vimrc file in that package anymore. - all vim script files (including .vimrc) must be in binary line ending mode. Convert all CRLF to FL. Please don't Cc me in a mail to the list. I'm reading the list on a regular basis and I can do w/o two copies of the same posting. Keep Cygwin stuff on list. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/