Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andy Civil Subject: Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man? Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:32:51 -0400 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3F4010A3.5080900@hotmail.com> References: <3F3F7D83 DOT 3030403 AT hotmail DOT com> <3F3FB3DB DOT 4050401 AT cygwin DOT com> <3F4000A6 DOT 80404 AT hotmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/