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Cc: dan@bosold.net
Subject: Re: no syntax highlighting in vim (latest) win2k
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:40:58 +0200 
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Von: Dan Bosold [mailto:hamishog@yahoo.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. Juni 2002 17:27

> vim 6.X, latest from cygwin and win2k. fresh install
> and i cannot get syntax  highlighting to work in vim.
> shell highlighting, ls, etc works just fine .with vim,
> i get the following errors:
> 
> 'Trailing characters: endif^M'
> 'Command already exists: use ! to redifine'
> 'Not an editor command: ^M'
> 
> ...
 
I assume that your syntaxfiles have DOS-style line endings.
Cygwin's vim seems not to like them.

Try inside VIM:
:cd $VIMRUNTIME/syntax
:ar *
:bufdo set ff=unix
:wall
:q

HTH, 

Bernd

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