Looking for a gooood port of VI for cygwin...

[TOMMY REYNOLDS]

Corinna,

FYI: The UNIX tarball for VIM compiles OOB if done from the "/unix"
subdirectory, not the "/win32" one.

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> From: 	Corinna Vinschen[SMTP:vinschen@cygnus.com]
> Reply To: 	cygwin
> Sent: 	Thursday, 29 June, 2000 09:17
> To: 	Michael H. Warfield
> Cc: 	cygwin
> Subject: 	Re: Looking for a gooood port of VI for cygwin...
> 
> "Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> > >
> ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Hirmke_Mich
> ael/1.0/
> > 
> >         How about VIM?  <www.vim.org>
> > 
> >         It's now my preferred flavor of vi on both Unix (*BSD and Linux)
> > and on Windows.  Their site includes Windows binaries.  It supports
> color
> > syntax highlighting, multiple windows, multiple undo/redo, and works
> with
> > cscope as a few of it's optional enhancements.
> 
> Which all is supported on both, Windows _and_ U*X (as far as color is
> supported by the terminal/terminal emu).
> 
> The Windows port on their site is plain Win32. No Cygwin support. This
> is only supported by Cygwin ports like the above on ftp.franken.de.
> 
> >         Other than the multiple redo/undo, I'm unaware of any
> significant
> > differences between pure vi and vim.
> > 
> >         Pure vi uses 'u' to undo and 'u' again to redo for a single
> level
> > undo.  VIM uses 'u' to undo and '^r' to redo and you can undo and redo
> > multiple levels.
> 
> For purists:
> 
> 	:set compatible
> 
> Corinna
> 
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> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Developer
> Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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