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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:08:47 -0600
From: "Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas" <jevv DOT cr AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: gvim not finding syntax.vim
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Hi,

From a tcsh (cygwin) session I'm performing:

% which gvim
/bin/gvim

% gvim
Error detected while processing /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/jevasque/.vimrc:
line    2:
E484: Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim

I tried linking the syntax sub-dir under vim70 to vim:

% cd /usr/share/vim
% ln -s vim70/syntax
% ls
syntax@  vim70/

But this still didn't work:

% gvim
Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/synload.vim:
line   57:
E580: :endif without :if:   endif
line   58:
E193: :endfunction not inside a function

I checked the piece of code complaining:

 33 fun! s:SynSet()
 34   " clear syntax for :set syntax=OFF  and any syntax name that doesn't exist
 35   syn clear
 36   if exists("b:current_syntax")
 37     unlet b:current_syntax
 38   endif
 39
 40   let s = expand("<amatch>")
 41   if s == "ON"
 42     " :set syntax=ON
 43     if &filetype == ""
 44       echohl ErrorMsg
 45       echo "filetype unknown"
 46       echohl None
 47     endif
 48     let s = &filetype
 49   endif
 50
 51   if s != ""
 52     " Load the syntax file(s).  When there are several, separated by dots,
 53     " load each in sequence.
 54     for name in split(s, '\.')
 55       exe "runtime! syntax/" . name . ".vim syntax/" . name . "/*.vim"
 56     endfor
 57   endif
 58 endfun

And I see no problem, :(.  This comes from the fact I like
syntax/color to be enabled through my ~/.vimrc:

% cat ~/.vimrc
:set background=dark
:syntax on
:set showmatch
:set smartindent
:set cindent

Please notice the terminal vim is working properly withouth the
manually created link, and out of the box, so I wouldn't know what it
is about gvim that doesn't work properly...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-- 
Javier

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