From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: vi?
26 May 1998 22:07:34 -0700 :
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To:	Robert Lister <robl AT lentil DOT org>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Try vim (http://www.vim.org).  The default binaries for Win32 don't understand
Cygnus mounts but a cygwin version is easy to build (the 5.0 release).  I've
been using it myself for many (many) months now.

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At 12:22 AM 5/26/98 +0100, Robert Lister wrote:
>
>Umm,
>
>I like gnuwin, but was shocked to find that it appears to have
>no editor, not even vi.
>
>There is a vi that comes with ( I think ) one of the Microsoft CD's
>but this version is a DOS version that doesn't understand the unix
>"/" file paths, etc, and it only runs on /dev/conin and not, say,
>/dev/tty1
>
>Is there a version of vi that will work properly with Gnuwin?
>
>Thanks and Regards
>
>
>Robert
>
>-- 
>Robert Lister    -        robl AT lentil DOT org  -    http://www.lentil.org
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