Syntax highlighting not working in vim73

["Harrington, John" <jharring at qualcomm dot com>]

I recently upgraded vim in cygwin from vim63 to vim73.? I am running cygwin (with vim) on a Windows XP (version 5.1, sp3) machine.? 

My problem is that syntax highlighting, which has worked fine for me in every previous version of vim suddenly doesn't not work.? I have not modified my vimrc files, so I'm at a loss to know what has changed.? 

I have looked at the vim documentation and some online tutorials.? I seem to be doing everything I need to do to get syntax coloring to work.? I have turned on syntax in the /usr/share/vim/vimrc and in my .vimrc file in my home directory.? I have tried explicitly typing :syntax on in vim.? I have tried replacing my vimrc files with sample vimrc files that are supposed to work.? I have tried explicitly indicating syntax with the :set syn=<syntax-type> command.? ?Nothing seems to make a difference.? 

Looking in /usr/share/vim/vim73/syntax, I see all of the syntax files there, including the file types I'm testing (such as python.vim, etc.).? 

The cygwin window can represent colors just fine.? For example, ls --color works, but nothing I do seems to turn syntax coloring on.

There is nothing extraordinary about my installation of cygwin or vim or the configuration of my machine, so I'm guessing this is a problem many cygwin/vim users have had, but perhaps there's something that makes me unique.? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know.? 

What should I try next?? Thanks.? 

Best regards,
John


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