Cygnus + VIM (+ bug in ftp?)

Wed Jul 5 07:05:00 GMT 2000

Hi Corinna/Michael
Thanks for the replies. I believe I took the latest release at the wrong time :-(. I
should have waited for an official mail on cygwin-announce!
For some questions that you have asked, here goes the answer :
> 1. Why do we have these two files, vi.exe and vim.exe in the /bin directory?
> Is there any difference between the two.

Thanks for clarifying this point.
> 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.

Further diagnosis relvealed the following facts.
 * An 'od -xc' on that file shows \r and \n. Even 'cat -v' displays ^M, but VIM
 does not .
 * Going by my grandma's trick, I ftp-ed the file to a solaris box in ascii mode
 and got it back in binary mode. I was surprised to see that \r\n were *not*
 changed to \n. I think it may be a bug in Cygwin version of ftp.exe.
 * I tried the same stunt with ftp.exe from \WINNT\system32 directory. This time
 the trick worked. All ^Ms were removed and /bin/vim does not crib anymore about
 trailing characters when :source-d.
>> 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.

There is no need for my _vimrc file. This is easy to reproduce. Open VIM
 :map <C-Y> :q!<CR> # this works
Now,
 :map <C-Q> :q!<CR> # this doesnt work. Neither does <C-S>
> 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?

As one gentleman from vim mailing list suggested, I included the following lines in
my _vimrc file :
 set background=dark
 syntax on
It solved the problem.
Thanks.
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