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From:	Andy Civil <putmyfullnamehere AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?
Date:	Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:32:51 -0400
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Well, I managed to install vim, but I couldn't get it to emulate vi 
successfully, I read all the help stuff, and tried "vi -v file", but it 
was still showing the "~" signs in blue.

I did a web search and came up with a port of vi that works under cygwin 
here:

http://www.fay.nc.us/~glenn/cygwin/

I unzipped it into my /bin directory and I'm happy now; it's really 
lean. I don't want to get cute here because I really, really appreciate 
that people write free software (I mean that) but I have to say that the 
whole experience of vim, namely being forced to use an "improved" 
version of a program and then spending ages trying to make it behave 
like the old version, is one of the reasons that people flee from 
Windows in the first place. (For example, try turning off auto-insert 
notification in windows XP - it's a nightmare!)

Thanks for your help, Larry.

-- 
Andy



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