This is mostly intended as a note to myself, but might be useful to anyone who have trouble with Cygwin. I found instructions and help on these topics to be sparse and sometimes difficult to find, thus i decided to compile them in this handy document. This file describes how I set up my programming environment in windows 8 using the following:
- Cygwin with the mintty terminal
- Vim Custom vimrc, Pathogen and some useful plugins
- Solarized color palette for both vim and mintty
- Sourcepro font
Vim Plugins:
- Neocomplete
- Ultisnips
- Julia-vim
This is more a collection of links and notes if some part of an installation turned out to be trick in Cygwin, install instructions will be in the links.
Get latest version, mintty should be included. During the Cygwin installation remember to tick of Vim as a package to be installed. The installer can be run again to update Cygwin or install new packages.
A few useful things one can install this way:
- Vim
- gcc
- tex
- Lua interpreter Needed for Neocomplete
- Python interpreter Needed for Ultisnips
Copied Amir Salihefendics vimrc and made some minor additions.
A nice color palette, need to be installed separately for vim and mintty:
- Vim: https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized
- Mintty: https://github.com/mavnn/mintty-colors-solarized
add
Term=xterm-256colorto your .minttyrc file in addition to the other changes in the installation.
Even thought you only want Solarized in Vim, iff you use Vim in terminal mode, you will need the palette colors in the terminal as well.
- Download https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans-pro/releases
- Install instructions http://www.adobe.com/products/type/install-instructions.html
Curl is mentioned in the installation, disregard that. Just git clone in the ~/.vim folder
With pathogen installed, any plugins can easily be installed by cloning them into the ~/.vim/bundle folder.
Require vim with Lua, this is included in Cygwin
type vim --version and there should be +lua/dyn in the list. Check in vim by typing: :echo has("Lua") should return a 1.If 0 is returned, check that you selected the Lua interpreter when installing Cygwin. Lastly add let g:neocomplete#enable_at_startup = 1 to the .vimrc
Require vim with Python, this is also included in Cygwin, and can be checked similarly to checking for Lua.
In the vim --version list there should be a '+' in front of python/dyn. Check if python works by typing :py print "anything" in vim.
UltiSnips come without any default snips installed. Default snips can be found here