I have done with the slowness of cygwin git and switch to git-for-windows. Unfortunately, vim on cygwin doesn’t work well with git-for-windows per various path problems (e.g. plugin, path delimiters, etc). Here are some notes for tweaking vim on Windows. .vim or vimfiles Directories? Later one is used on Windows, however, many plugin or your scripts may refer the previous one. Thus, mklink it! i.e. .vim <==> vimfiles . VIM with Python Support Official vim81 compiles vim.exe without python support and gvim.exe with python/dyn (verify that with gvim --version ). Thus, Python support is only avail as of gvim.exe per official packages. Assume python.exe and python27.dll was installed in C:\Python\bin Add following environment variables PYTHONHOME=C:\Python\bin PATH=%PATH%;%PYTHONHOME% For :h pythonhome and :h pythondll . Verify above settings with :python print '' . Color Scheme gvim requires true color to apply color scheme correctly. Convert you...