X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=mn5tmHgqjSh5Sp34LW5GVYp3Gos5Ny26oM2n5vIOl5K vW+uC93PFtMWmv3Y3T9DmZIr8JGuOZxOUE4GIaBQ1OTinzmMldtuLRBto/fanGNL gigaLkJ6vsXVnzEICMD3ri8p65MG2tn3gy/ONEOvoOh0ZPlJbdNOjrI2GxMq7msE = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=6Y6vrpLgZ1ttRVPxaQMq0cHoKR4=; b=UWQMfNfEcOAWYRB34 dFvH8smx6ZEh4TW53jGPtjrdxrSCxdzbxs3OGzDWGmJdR00V26UfeVIjlQ1R5ARG TZX9NSZpw2mOHNm5AZXiAebNkwngPXFUYEDB62pAP2YscQxd/mXb3gqol8sU1/dX RQKuw/W5V6cvWzsWZpuCuQRoZ4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Received: by 10.68.252.227 with SMTP id zv3mr72447pbc.14.1371115786228; Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51B9910B.7070108@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:29:47 -0500 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2013-06-11 02:07, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2013/6/11 Yaakov (Cygwin/X): >> This is an update to last week's upstream patchset, with the following >> packaging changes: >> >> * The 'vi' binary now uses ~/.virc and /etc/virc instead of vimrc to avoid >> errors with configuration options not supported by 'vi'. > > Any reason why you stopped using alternatives? > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-05/msg00068.html > > It was removed when it was really needed with the introduction of > vim-minimal. Especially when vim-minimal was added to Base. > > It solves the vi != vim problem: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-05/msg00068.html These are two separate issues: 1. The vi (vim-minimal) binary, alternatives or no, being compiled with FEAT_SMALL, does not support many of the additional features which users may have enabled unconditionally in their vimrc(5), leading to errors at startup. This release fixes that in the same fashion as Fedora, by using virc instead. 2. Some users are accustomed to typing 'vi' and getting 'vim'; that doesn't work on Fedora either, and using an alias is the simplest workaround. I suspect there are good reasons for not having 'vim' supplant vim-minimal as the 'vi' command, but I'll have to look into it further. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple