Cygwin vim doesn't load files in runtimepath

I created a custom syntax file, and but none of the files in $VIMRUNTIME seem to load. I followed these pieces of the documentation:

When I do

:echo &runtimepath

I get:

/home/durron597/.vim,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles,/usr/share/vim/vim73,/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/after,/home/durron597/.vim/after

However, if I open a file with vim -D, here's the listed files as I type f:

/etc/vimrc
/home/durron597/.vimrc
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/getscriptPlugin.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/gzip.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/matchparen.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/rrhelper.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/spellfile.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/tarPlugin.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/tohtml.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim73/plugin/zipPlugin.vim

Here's the output of ls -lR

durron597@Durron597 ~/.vim
$ ls -lR
.:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 durron597 None 0 Jun  3 11:06 ftdetect
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 durron597 None 0 Jun  3 11:06 syntax

./ftdetect:
total 1.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 durron597 None 45 Jun  3 11:06 mytype.vim

./syntax:
total 4.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 durron597 None 740 Jun  3 11:06 mytype.vim

The exact exact paths are:

/home/durron597/.vim/ftdetect/mytype.vim
/home/durron597/.vim/syntax/mytype.vim

Note: the problem is that these files don't seem to be loaded at all, not that these files have internal mistakes

Output of :filetype

filetype detection:ON  plugin:ON  indent:OFF

Edit 3: No, really, the files are in the right place:

$ find /home -name '*.vim'
/home/durron597/.vim
/home/durron597/.vim/ftdetect/fix.vim
/home/durron597/.vim/syntax/fix.vim

durron597

Posted 2014-06-03T16:21:33.547

Reputation: 479

What makes you believe they aren't being loaded? Does it not show up in :scriptnames? – FDinoff – 2014-06-19T00:08:52.250

@FDinoff the syntax highlighting doesn't appear, the file doesn't get processed with vim -D... – durron597 – 2014-06-19T00:14:43.220

@durron597 I don't believe vim -D is very reliable for this use case. For instance I know of a file that gets during startup but it doesn't show up in the output. It does however show up in the output of :scriptnames. Can you post that? – FDinoff – 2014-06-19T00:19:02.990

And just for a sanity check what do you have in ftdetect/fix.vim and syntax/fix.vim – FDinoff – 2014-06-19T00:26:00.510

@FDinoff, looks like you're correct, it did show up in :scriptnames. Which led me to start debugging the right thing, but I still haven't gotten the syntax file to work. But typing :sy does make my definitions show up... just nothing turns any colors – durron597 – 2014-06-19T20:51:19.563

@durron597 if you still can't figure it out I recommend opening a new question. – FDinoff – 2014-06-19T23:38:19.497

What is the exact path of both mytype.vim? – romainl – 2014-06-03T16:29:19.587

What is the output of :filetype in Vim? – romainl – 2014-06-03T16:39:06.727

$ ls -lR ~ lists the content of your $HOME, not of your current directory so, from the information you gave, it looks like those two directories are under ~/, not ~/.vim/. – romainl – 2014-06-03T16:46:19.417

@romainl that was a typo, somehow it happened when I was changing my username from my real one to durron597. I fixed it. ls -lR ~ prints out a lot more stuff, I just checked again with no args other than the flags and it prints what I pasted – durron597 – 2014-06-03T16:48:32.483

@romainl edited again – durron597 – 2014-06-03T16:50:20.250

Cygwin vim is now at 7.4, but this output is from a 7.3 version. Why? – Yaakov – 2014-06-03T21:13:16.513

@Yaakov Because I haven't updated it recently :-/ but the docs I'm using also are 7.3 – durron597 – 2014-06-03T21:31:45.883

Cygwin vim doesn't load files in runtimepath

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