/usr/bin/vi: errors parsing .vim files from vim-common package

Tue Dec 19 02:09:25 GMT 2023

On 18/12/2023 20:42, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
> tl,dr: Did vi/vim change from /etc/alternatives to an alias?
>> $ ls -l $(which vi) $(which vim)
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 1507859 Dec 12 09:07 /usr/bin/vi.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 3565587 Dec 12 09:07 /usr/bin/vim.exe
>
they are two different binaries
$ ls -l vi vim
-rwxr-xr-x 1 marco None 1.5M Dec 12 13:58 vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 marco None 3.5M Dec 12 13:58 vim
 > $ alias vi
 > alias vi='vim'
 >
$ grep -rH alias .
./profile.d/vim.csh:alias vi vim
./profile.d/vim.fish:alias vi vim
./profile.d/vim.sh: # for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set
./profile.d/vim.sh: alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim
it is the default if both vi and vim are installed
and it was in the cygwin package by long time
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 3:11 PM John Hein wrote:
>>>> I just updated vim packages (including vim-minimal and vim-common) to 9.0.2155-1
>> I've got the same version installed
> $ grep '^vi' cygcheck-srv_2023年12月17日.txt
> vim 9.0.2155-1 OK
> vim-common 9.0.2155-1 OK
> vim-minimal 9.0.2155-1 OK
>>> Now when I run 'vi', I get this:
>>>> Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim90/filetype.vim:
>> line 11:
> <.. snip ..>
>> and so on.

is you use /usr/bin/vi, you will bypass the alias and
hitting the same problem
 /usr/bin/vi is loading plugin intended only for vim
I will need some time to dig in the issue
Regards
Marco