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RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: "'Robinow, David'" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:32:17 +1000
- Subject: RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Robinow, David
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 7:30 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
>
>
> > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com]
> > Subject: RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
> > Sigh, as usual the emacs camp always misses the point. You
> > use a shell
> > for file operations and you use an editor for editing. Why
> > is there any
> > need to muddle the two? Vi is simple and elegant, whereas emacs is
> > well... rather bloated and not very elegant. Would you use
> > a chainsaw to
> > cut a diamond? I think not...
> I may very well be missing the point. But I'm starting to
> believe that
> "vi" is incapable of opening compressed files and that you
> think this is an
> advantage. I think I'll continue to miss that point.
> Well, emacs can open compressed files and some people like
> that feature.
> In any case, the use of that feature is what this whole
> thread is about.
Vim opens compressed files very nicely on linux, if it doesn't on cygwin
I'd ask the maintainer nicely, or even look into it myself.
Rob
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