VIM Vundle not working under Cygwin64

VIM Vundle not working under Cygwin64

[Paul King]

Hello

I have tried to get vim's vundle package to work under Cygwin64, and
it appears as though vim doesn't understand most of the package.
Vundle works under 32-bit Cygwin, but something in the way the 64-bit
version was compiled looks in the wrong place for vimrc.

The 64-bit version (sorry I forget the version number (I uninstalled
it), but it is the one under the very latest 64-bit distro) thinks
that
vimrc resides under ~/.vim/vimrc (a directory in my case). It does not
look at my ~/.vimrc file at all. I got this info using :version

When I force it to do so (vim -u ~/.vimrc filename), I get a ton of
errors as it does not seem to understand most of the Vundle commands.
That could also be from the fact that it might be an older version of
vim, but since I uninstalled it, I can't be sure.

I would like the vundle package to work the way it does under any
other *NIX system I use, including Cygwin32. Is there a
Cygwin-specific source package I can download or is there a way
someone could re-compile a more recent binary so that it understands
things like a standard location for ~/.vimrc and vundle commands?

Thanks

Paul

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Re: VIM Vundle not working under Cygwin64

[Gary Johnson]

On 2013-10-03, Paul King wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have tried to get vim's vundle package to work under Cygwin64, and
> it appears as though vim doesn't understand most of the package.
> Vundle works under 32-bit Cygwin, but something in the way the 64-bit
> version was compiled looks in the wrong place for vimrc.
> 
> The 64-bit version (sorry I forget the version number (I uninstalled
> it), but it is the one under the very latest 64-bit distro) thinks
> that
> vimrc resides under ~/.vim/vimrc (a directory in my case). It does not
> look at my ~/.vimrc file at all. I got this info using :version

The latest 64-bit Cygwin vim package is 7.3.1314-1.  Since version
7.3.1178, vim looks for your personal configuration file first in
~/.vimrc, then in ~/.vim/vimrc.  I have my actual vimrc file in
~/.vim/vimrc and currently symlink to it from ~/.vimrc so that I can
run older versions of vim.

When I run vim-7.3.1314-1 on 64-bit Cygwin, it says that $MYVIMRC is
$HOME/.vimrc.  ":scriptnames" also shows ~/.vimrc as the only vimrc
sourced.

So, Cygwin's 64-bit Vim is working just fine for me.

> When I force it to do so (vim -u ~/.vimrc filename), I get a ton of
> errors as it does not seem to understand most of the Vundle commands.
> That could also be from the fact that it might be an older version of
> vim, but since I uninstalled it, I can't be sure.

Are you sure you're running the full version of vim?  ":version"
should show this at the top:

    :version
    VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Sep 13 2013 01:07:02)
    Included patches: 1-1314
    Compiled by <#################>
    Huge version without GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):

[It turns out that including the real "Compiled by" string causes
this message to be rejected by the list server because that string
includes an e-mail address.]

It looks to me like you might be running the minimal version of vim.
Try this command.

    $ cygcheck -cd | grep vim
    vim                  7.3.1314-1
    vim-common           7.3.1314-1
    vim-minimal          7.3.1314-1

If that looks the same on your system, would you post the errors you


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