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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.1152-1


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:48:33PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
>On 2013-12-06, Bj?rn Kautler wrote:
>
>> 2013/12/6 Christopher Faylor:
>> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Bj?rn Kautler wrote:
>> >>Do my messages come through at all?
>> >>No-one answers or cares about this one. :-(
>> >
>> > Either it is this:
>> > 1) http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM
>> >
>> > Or maybe this:
>> > 2) http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>> >
>> > Or maybe it is that this is a question has been asked and answered
>> > repeatedly.
>> >
>> > Install the 'vim' package.  You likely only have vim-minimal installed.  We
>> > don't know for sure because you didn't provide the details from 2).
>
>> Hi Christopher,
>> 
>> thanks for your reply.
>> Do you really think it could be 2)?
>> I didn't ask a question like "hey somehting is not working".
>> But rather I found out where the problem is in the code and provided
>> two proposed fixes, not knowing which one is appropriate.
>> It is totally not depending on my installation, but on the sourcecode
>> of the package.
>> I could provide the information requested in 2), but I don't think it
>> would help in this case.
>> And yes, I have the "vim" package installed, not only the "vim-minimal" package.
>
>This is apparently not a bug but a deliberate decision by the Red
>Hat package maintainers.  I base that on the observation that
>/usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/vim on my Fedora 17 installation are
>configured with those same system vimrc files:
>
>    $ /usr/bin/vi --version
>    ...
>       system vimrc file: "/etc/virc"
>    ...
>
>    $ /usr/bin/vim --version
>    ...
>       system vimrc file: "/etc/vimrc"
>    ...
>
>It makes sense that Cygwin, belonging to Red Hat, would use the same
>configuration as other Red Hat distributions.
>
>(Please correct me if I've misstated the relationships between Red
>Hat, Fedora and Cygwin.)

This isn't a Red Hat project.  It's an open source project staffed by
volunteers like Yaakov.  We do tend to base our decisions on how things
work on Linux because that's what the project has come to be modelled
after.  Red Hat has nothing to do with it.  If Red Hat was actually
calling the shots I wouldn't be here.

cgf

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