I tried something based on your original suggestion: $ export VIM=/usr/share/vim
which seems to 'work' (no longer any interruption when opening a file with vim, and syntax highlighting is working). How would I set this to always be implemented whenever cygwin is run? Thanks, John On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:43 PM Salman Halim <salmanha...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my Windows environment, VIM and VIMRUNTIME are regular environment > variables that I can edit like any others. If that doesn't work, maybe > they're defined in your shell's RC file? > > Salman > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 17:18 John Cordes <john.cor...@dal.ca> wrote: > >> Thanks for the thought. In Cygwin echo $PATH shows all forward slashes. >> Did you mean to somehow edit things like $VIMRUNTIME? I'm not sure how that >> would be done. >> >> John >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM Salman Halim <salmanha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This may be too simple, but have you tried changing the environment >>> variables variables to have forward slashes instead of back slashes? >>> >>> Salman >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 16:46 John Cordes <john.cor...@dal.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm hoping someone can help with a problem. I've had cygwin64 installed >>>> for at least a couple of years, with Vim v8 running just fine. I also have >>>> Windows Vim running; this is all under Win 10. >>>> I've just updated the cygwin64 installation and vim is now v9.0. When >>>> I start the cygwin vim I get these lines: >>>> >>>> =========================== >>>> Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc: >>>> line 90: >>>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>> Error detected while processing /home/Owner/.vimrc: >>>> line 6: >>>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>> Press ENTER or type command to continue >>>> =========================== >>>> >>>> Pressing ENTER allows me to continue, editing files, etc. but not >>>> surprisingly with no syntax highlighting. >>>> >>>> :echo $VIMRUNTIME = C:\Users\Owner\_vim/vim90 >>>> Note the mixed up forward and backward slashes in that path. Note also >>>> the* lack* of slashes in the paths reported above as E484. >>>> >>>> It seems clear that there is some sort of clash between Unix and >>>> Windows path conventions going on but I haven't been able to figure out how >>>> to fix it. >>>> >>>> The file syntax.vim does exist and is in the right location (I think): >>>> $ ls -l /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Owner Administrators 1.4K Dec 20 01:57 >>>> /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim >>>> >>>> vim --version includes these lines: >>>> VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Dec 20 2023 06:57:02) >>>> Included patches: 1-2155 >>>> system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc" >>>> user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" >>>> 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" >>>> user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" >>>> defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim" >>>> fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim" >>>> >>>> One more item: >>>> :scriptnames >>>> 1: /etc/vimrc >>>> 2: ~/.vimrc >>>> 3: ~/.vim/keymap/insert_only_capslock.vim >>>> 4: ~/.vim/bufferlist.vim >>>> 5: ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help! >>>> >>>> John Cordes >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. >>>> Do not top-post! 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