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mottalrd
mottalrd

Reputation: 4490

Vim on Cygwin and MinGW

I have tried to use Vim both on Cygwin and MinGW but many times the characters behave in an unpredictable manner (backspace is not deleting, cannot have a semicolumn, and so on...). I am wondering if this is related to those systems or if it could be a problem of my own system/settings (e.g I need to adjust some settings, define the character encoding, etc.). I am on windows 7 64bit

Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1973

Answers (1)

starbolin
starbolin

Reputation: 840

The Cygwin CMD emulator has a known problem with Vim. Seems to be a redraw problem. Apparently fixing it would break execution of some exes that Cygwin depends on. Many users choose to use another terminal emulator. I find that paging down and back up fixes the redraw but sometimes I have to exit Vim and relaunch.

PuTTYcyg is a patched version of PuTTY that, in addition to telnet, rlogin, ssh, and serial connections, can also be used as a local Cygwin terminal instead of the Windows console or xterm. See README.txt on the PuTTYcyg site for more information.

To use rxvt: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin set EDITOR=vi set VISUAL=vi set CYGWIN=codepage:oem tty binmode title rxvt -sr -sl 10000 -fg white -bg black -fn fixedsys -fb fixedsys -tn cygwin -e bash --login -i

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin and MSYS. In Cygwin, it is installed as the default terminal by Cygwin's setup.exe. In MSYS, the mintty package can be installed with the command mingw-get install mintty. Alternatively, binaries for Cygwin 1.7, 1.5 and MSYS can be found on the Minitty downloads page.

Upvotes: 2

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