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: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:43:47 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unix/DOS text mode? Message-ID: <20011122234347.O27931@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20011122190704.96085.qmail@web13502.mail.yahoo.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011122225059.036d77f0@imap.local.mscha.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011122232538.03a2c208@imap.local.mscha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011122232538.03a2c208@imap.local.mscha.com>; from cygwin@mscha.org on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:30:11PM +0100 On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:30:11PM +0100, Michael Schaap wrote: > At 23:05 22-11-2001, I wrote: > >The default value of "fileformats" depends on whether the "compatible" > >option is set. > >If it is, then fileformats="", so file format autodetection is disabled. > >If it isn't, then fileformats="unix,dos". > >(This is for the UNIX version (including Cygwin). The Windoze native > >version uses "dos,unix" in both cases.) > > > >If a .vimrc exists, even if it is empty, "nocompatible" will be set, > >otherwise "compatible" will be set. > > > >So, a default installation of vim on Cygwin will not enable file format > >detection. > > > >(Source: ":help compatible".) > > Here's a patch that changes the default fileformats in vi-compatible mode > to "unix,dos", for Cygwin. > I'll also attach it, since I'm using Eudora (with format=flowed), which may > screw up indentation. > > If Corinna likes the patch, I'll also send it to the vim-dev list. (It may > be a while before it becomes "official", though, since Bram is on a > well-deserved vacation.) I'm all with it but please drop the usage of __CYGWIN32__. It's depricated. I will send a patch to vim-dev which drops all other __CYGWIN32__ in favour of __CYGWIN later. 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/