From: jsturm@sigma6.com (Jeff Sturm) Subject: Re: New Installation 20 Oct 1998 19:52:33 -0700 Message-ID: <362C95A2.19C942B2.cygnus.gnu-win32@sigma6.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19981015132909.0092c9e0@soham> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen Marley Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Stephen Marley wrote: > > On 17 October 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote: > > > > Get vim from > > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael > > I don't get it. Why should one use a Cygwin32 version of Vim when > perfectly acceptable Win32 native ports (gui and console) exist? A native cygwin32 port just works better, especially for bash users... it understands cygwin32 mount points, symbolic links, and has better tty handling, for example it understands the SIGWINCH signal indicating that the window size has changed. -- Jeff Sturm jsturm@sigma6.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".