Re: Vim 9 problem under Cygwin64

In my Windows environment, VIM and VIMRUNTIME are regular environment
variables that I can edit like any others. If that doesn't work, maybe
they're defined in your shell's RC file?

Salman

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 17:18 John Cordes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the thought. In Cygwin echo $PATH shows all forward slashes.
> Did you mean to somehow edit things like $VIMRUNTIME? I'm not sure how that
> would be done.
>
> John
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM Salman Halim <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> This may be too simple, but have you tried changing the environment
>> variables variables to have forward slashes instead of back slashes?
>>
>> Salman
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 16:46 John Cordes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm hoping someone can help with a problem. I've had cygwin64 installed
>>> for at least a couple of years, with Vim v8 running just fine. I also have
>>> Windows Vim running; this is all under Win 10.
>>>  I've just updated the cygwin64 installation and vim is now v9.0. When I
>>> start the cygwin vim I get these lines:
>>>
>>> ===========================
>>> Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc:
>>> line   90:
>>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>>> Error detected while processing /home/Owner/.vimrc:
>>> line    6:
>>> E484: Can't open file C:UsersOwner_vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>>> ===========================
>>>
>>> Pressing ENTER allows me to continue, editing files, etc. but not
>>> surprisingly with no syntax highlighting.
>>>
>>> :echo $VIMRUNTIME = C:\Users\Owner\_vim/vim90
>>> Note the mixed up forward and backward slashes in that path. Note also
>>> the* lack* of slashes in the paths reported above as E484.
>>>
>>>  It seems clear that there is some sort of clash between Unix and
>>> Windows path conventions going on but I haven't been able to figure out how
>>> to fix it.
>>>
>>> The file syntax.vim does exist and is in the right location (I think):
>>> $ ls -l /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 Owner Administrators 1.4K Dec 20 01:57
>>> /usr/share/vim/vim90/syntax/syntax.vim
>>>
>>> vim --version includes these lines:
>>> VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0 (2022 Jun 28, compiled Dec 20 2023 06:57:02)
>>> Included patches: 1-2155
>>>    system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc"
>>>      user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
>>>  2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
>>>       user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
>>>        defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
>>>   fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
>>>
>>> One more item:
>>> :scriptnames
>>>   1: /etc/vimrc
>>>   2: ~/.vimrc
>>>   3: ~/.vim/keymap/insert_only_capslock.vim
>>>   4: ~/.vim/bufferlist.vim
>>>   5: ~/.vim/plugin/matchit.vim
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>> John Cordes
>>>
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