On May 14 04:35, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2013-05-14 02:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >What bugs me with vim-minimal on Fedora is usually that it's lacking > >basic vim functionality, even if it does not rely on external packages. > >I'm not quite sure if I remember correctly, but in the past I think I > >even had problems with color settings for syntax decoration, which > >forced me to use the vim-enhanced package. And I'm really not using > >any complicated stuff, like text folding or so... > > > >So my question is, is vim-minimal at least more or less feature complete > >as far as the feature doesn't require external dependencies? > > I followed Fedora's lead and compiled vim-minimal > --with-features=small,
:( > which excludes many features and avoids the > need for vim-common (which requires perl and xxd, the former of > which being what started this discussion), which e.g. syntax > highlighting would require. Er... what? Since when does syntax highlighting require perl? The old vim package I compiled when I maintained it was built with the --with-features=huge setting but didn't pull in any of the possible dependencies. No perl, no python, no ruby. But syntax highlighting worked fine. Apart from that, I guess calling vi (and that's what *many* users are used to) will now result in the same error Frank reported. Any chance to build vim-minimal with a bigger default set of features which is only based on avoiding external deps? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat