vim-5.6

Notes:

• 2001-Jul-04: vim is now obsolete, since the official cygwin version is now built against ncurses. (Previously, this one was 'unique' because it was built against ncurses while the official one was built against termcap. Since that is no longer true, the version here is truly obsolete now. Especially since the official vim is now version 6.0!!)
• 2000-Dec-3: vim has been removed from the usr-local package, since it doesn't provide much additional functionality over the 'official' vim. It's not exactly "obsolete" -- it's just different.

Since the cygutils version of ncurses was obsoleted by a newer version of ncurses in the official cygwin distribution, this vim may break if you don't have the cygutils ncurses installed on your machine. There are a number of ways to fix this:

• make sure the 'official' ncurses package is installed and put 'export TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo' in ~/.bash_profile
• make sure the 'official' ncurses package is installed and 'ln -s /usr/share/terminfo /usr/local/share/terminfo'
• uninstall this vim and just use the official one. Use the RemoveObsoletePackages tool.
• download and install the cygutils version of ncurses. This is NOT recommended.

This vim differs from the "official" one included in the cygwin net release:

• it's based on the ncurses library (terminfo), not the termcap library (/etc/termcap).

Builds out of box. This package is completely independent of X11 (unlike the vim-5.5 that I published previously).

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• vim-5.6-src.tar.gz
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  • source package #2 (runtime scripts)

vim-5.6-1-cygwin1.README

The following will build vim without any dependence on
X11 and without any kind of GUI - an old-fashioned 
terminal-based editor. If you do want to build with 
X support, the hint at the bottom of this file may 
be helpful.

unpack vim-5.6-src.tar.gz
unpack vim-5.6-rt.tar.gz
cd vim-5.6

CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--host=i686-pc-cygwin \
--enable-gui=no \
--disable-gtktest \
--disable-gpm \
--without-x \
--with-tlib=ncurses

make
export SUFFIX=.exe
make install

Then, edit the file /usr/local/share/vim/vim56/syntax/synload.vim
to fix the colors. It should look like this: when you're done, 
starting around line 20.

if &background == "dark"
"  hi Comment	term=bold ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#80a0ff
"  hi Constant	term=underline ctermfg=Magenta guifg=#ffa0a0
"  hi Special	term=bold ctermfg=LightRed guifg=Orange
"  hi Identifier term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#40ffff
"  hi Statement	term=bold ctermfg=Yellow guifg=#ffff60 gui=bold
"  hi PreProc	term=underline ctermfg=LightBlue guifg=#ff80ff
"  hi Type	term=underline ctermfg=LightGreen guifg=#60ff60 gui=bold
"  hi Ignore	ctermfg=black guifg=bg
  hi Comment   term=bold ctermfg=Blue  guifg=#80a0ff
  hi Constant  term=underline ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#ffa0a0
  hi Special   term=bold ctermfg=LightRed guifg=Orange
  hi Identifier term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#40ffff
  hi Statement term=bold ctermfg=Yellow guifg=#ffff60 gui=bold
  hi PreProc   term=underline ctermfg=Magenta guifg=#ff80ff
  hi Type      term=underline ctermfg=Green guifg=#60ff60 gui=bold
  hi Ignore    ctermfg=black guifg=bg
else


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When building with X support, make will fail at a certain point 
because the link libraries are in the wrong order. Just link 
by hand with the following command, and then restart the make.

gcc -L/usr/local/lib -o vim  buffer.o charset.o digraph.o edit.o eval.o ex_cmds.o ex_docmd.o ex_getln.o fileio.o getchar.o  if_cscope.o main.o mark.o memfile.o memline.o menu.o message.o misc1.o misc2.o multbyte.o normal.o ops.o option.o os_unix.o pathdef.o quickfix.o regexp.o screen.o search.o syntax.o  tag.o term.o ui.o undo.o window.o      version.o  -L/usr/X11R6/lib     -lXt -lICE -lSM -lX11  -lncurses

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