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Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:48:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin
- References: <20061204222937.32824.qmail@web51008.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Dec 4 14:29, Carles Cufi wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> After some discussion with Matt Wozniski I've come to the conclusion that the default global config file for vim (/usr/share/vim/vimrc) included with Cygwin differs quite importantly from the ones included in other UNIX-like operating systems like Linux or Mac OS X (and yes, I know Cygwin is not an OS...)
> The key difference is that Cygwin does not set the "nocompatible" flag by default, something the other two OSs do. This results in old style vi-like behavior when editing with vim, which I personally feel is undesirable.
> I would therefore suggest to include the "nocompatible" flag set by default when installing Cygwin.
Well, no. What you get is exactly what is produced by `make install`
from the vanilla sources. It's quite easy to do what you want by
adding "set compatible" to your ~/.vimrc.
Corinna
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