From: tjump AT cais DOT com (Theodore Jump) Subject: Re: use of Win32 native editor with cygwin 21 Nov 1998 10:55:09 -0800 Message-ID: <3657ecb9.25479156.cygnus.gnu-win32@janus> References: <8FE38BA7AA36D211A22100A0C9AF533D0C8E67 AT mail4 DOT eglin DOT af DOT mil> Reply-To: tjump AT cais DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Ahlsen-Girard, Edward" Cc: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" >learn for the first time), and I am wondering if anyone has advice on how to >use The SemWare Editor 32 (a console-mode editor for Win32) with Cygwin. If Well, some minor nits aside, you should be able to just create your source files and feed them to gcc. Any editor should work, really, even Windows Notepad (so long as you keep your files reasonably small). >you consider this desire to be insane, feel free to say so, but in that case >please explain why someone who does not know how to program in C++ yet would >be better served by trying to use vi or emacs instead. However, you would probably be better served by a full-featured editor like VIM (VI Improved) or Emacs if for no other reason that they support language-based syntax highlighting which can provide very valuable visible cues and clues on your code as you write it. Helps spot problems, find variable names, etc. There are Cygwin Native builds of VIM for both Cygwin B19 and B20 "out there" that should work fine and present the least amount of setup time. Emacs is not yet ported to be native to Cygwin, however XEmacs has a beta version which is reportedly stable and works well with the Cygwin tools. VIM may be found here: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/ XEmacs may be found here: http://www.xemacs.org/ There are ready-to-use ports of these available at various Cygwin porting sites, check the Cygwin FAQ, or my web site, for some pointers. Best of luck, -Ted ______________________________________________________________________ http://www.i21.com/~tjump http://www.fighterduel.com "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents." -Nathaniel Borenstein - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".