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RE: vi and cygwin
- From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at ftb dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:42:43 -0600
- Subject: RE: vi and cygwin
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but try this command-line
option with vim.
-+- man vim -+-
-C Compatible. Set the 'compatible' option. This will make
Vim behave mostly like Vi, even though a
.vimrc file
exists.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com
> [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Totte Karlsson
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: vi and cygwin
>
>
> yeah, I know about the "standard method" but could not find
> vi there, only
> vim. So one should use vim? There is no "pure" vi?
> -totte
>
> "Brian Dessent" <brian at dessent dot net> wrote in message
> news: 40368B56.4ABE506D at dessent dot net...
> > Totte Karlsson wrote:
> >
> > > How do I get vi working under cygwin? Is it available?
> >
> > Install the vim package, using setup.exe. That is the
> standard method
> > for isntalling all Cygwin packages.
> >
> > Brian
> >
>
>
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