Fixes for console mode vim on Windows.

Console vim running on windows supports UTF-8.

The vim which ships with GNU On Windows doesn't have the necessary
support files for syntax highlighting to work.  Wrap "syn enable" in a
try..catch block so parsing .vimrc doesn't fail when run by GOW vim.

diff --git a/.vimrc b/.vimrc
index 18e34fa..a76c6a0 100644 (file)
--- a/.vimrc
+++ b/.vimrc
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ endif "}}}1
 if version >= "600" "{{{1
 version 6.0
 
-if has("gui_win32")
+if has("win32") || has("win64")
   se encoding=utf-8
 endif
 
@@ -810,7 +810,14 @@ filetype indent on
 
 " Less intrusive syntax highlighting.
 if has("syntax")
-  syn enable
+  " The :syntax enable command tries to source the syntax.vim runtime script.
+  " Parsing this .vimrc will fail if for some reason the runtime doesn't
+  " exist, as could be the case if the binary was installed with no support
+  " files.  GNU On Windows is one example of an incomplete installation.
+  try
+    syn enable
+  catch
+  endtry
 endif
 
 " Set colours.