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Re: Cygnus + VIM


And, as soon as it's official:

Shiv Kumar wrote:
>   1. Why do we have these two files, vi.exe and vim.exe in the /bin directory?
>      Is there any difference between the two.

They both will be hard linked together in the official release.
Reason: Convenience.

>   2. If I try to run another VIM script (eg matchit.vim) using :source command
>      inside VIM or in _vimrc file, it complains about trailing ^M characters.
>      But I dont see any ^M chars in that file.

Michael? Did you care for the binmode/textmode thing?

>   3. Some of my map commands does not work. Eg, :map <C-Q> :q!<CR> does not work
>      when I press CTRL+q. Similarly <C-S> also does not work.

This is perhaps not related to vim but to the tty code of Cygwin.

>   4. Any file with :syntax on is very hard to read with a black background. The
>      colors were all decent when I used Win32 version of VIM. Where does
>      cygwin-vim pick sytax coloring from?

Same as on other platforms: /usr/share/vim/vim57/syntax

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
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Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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