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Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:53:57 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: VIM Colors
Message-ID: <20011007185357.A12872@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <3BC08418.7040504@likai.net>; from news@likai.net on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:34:32PM -0400

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:34:32PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >It's not broken.  There's just no default vimrc file as in the 5.x
> >release.  Add `syntax on' to your $HOME/.vimrc file.
> >
> also there is a bunch of other behavioral changes "without default vimrc 
> file" ... including the weird escaping from insert mode and weird 
> backspace behavior (it won't delete beyond the insert point). so i added 
> the following lines in my $HOME/.vimrc to get back to work as quickly as 
> possible.
> 
> ---- starting my .vimrc ----
> set nocompatible
> set backspace=indent,eol,start
> 
> syntax on
> colorscheme elflord
> ---- end of my .vimrc ----
> 
> this will get you something pretty close to what you had before ... you 
> could theoretically steal some default vimrc from a linux distribution, 

You don't need Linux.  You can just take the vimrc_example.vim file
from /usr/share/vim/vim60 as example.

Corinna

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