Found out why vim/vundle didn't work

[Paul King <oaeinet at gmail dot com>]

I sent an earlier message to the list (or possibly to the vim list)
about my problems in getting the vundle distro to work under the vim
text editor. I am glad to report that the problem is solved, and this
is what I found:

This is a "cygwin" problem, although not necessarily a bug; more like
a PEBCAK problem in the package selection stage, as there are 3 vim
packages to choose from.

The "vim" command is a different "vim" than the "vi" command. Both are
"vim", but come from different vim packages. In Linux and other *nix
systems, vi is symbolically linked to vim, but not in this case. These
are different copies of vim, and both look in different places for the
.*rc file. I found that "vi" looks first in ~/.virc and second in
~/.vim/vimrc. When you install vundle. the second place is a
directory, causing "vi" to choke. Even when that is corrected, it
doesn't know how to handle the Bundle command, and you get a wild
flurry of error messages.

vim, however, looks first in ~/.vimrc which exists, and in turn
sources files under ~/.vim/vimrc. It waits a few moments, then opens
your file. This is consistent with my experience with vim/vundle under
other OS'es.

So, for me it was just a matter of logging in with my Administrator
account, then moving "vi" to "_vi"; then agreeing with custom, linking
vim symbolically to vi.

Paul King

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