Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:45:38 +0200 From: Kurt Roeckx To: Li-Kai Liu Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: VIM Colors Message-ID: <20011007214538.A162@ping.be> References: <20011007180313.D2774@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BC08418.7040504@likai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC08418.7040504@likai.net>; from news@likai.net on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:34:32PM -0400 On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:34:32PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote: > > > >It's not broken. There's just no default vimrc file as in the 5.x > >release. Add `syntax on' to your $HOME/.vimrc file. > > > also there is a bunch of other behavioral changes "without default vimrc > file" ... including the weird escaping from insert mode and weird > backspace behavior (it won't delete beyond the insert point). so i added > the following lines in my $HOME/.vimrc to get back to work as quickly as > possible. Both are normal behaviour of vi. You need to escape from insert mode before you can move around, and while in insert mode you can only remove what you added. It are extentions from vim, and alot of other clones, that do allow you to do that. Kurt -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/