Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/07/20:42:00
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:03:55PM +0530, Sukhwinder Singh wrote:
>>Windows 95 works well in a dual-boot configuration with Linux.
>>Therefore, my suggestion is precisely that. If you do, there will be
>>no need to use cygwin
>
>Yes I have Installed Red Hat Linux 7.1 and windows both. I had to use
>cygwin because for compilation of libmcrypt extension of php on Windows
>I needed cygwin. Libmcrypt doesn't provide windows vc++ projects(dsp)
>to compile it.
>
>Only reason for me not to use Linux for development is because there is
>no good editor available for Linux. So, without a good editor,
>development on Linux is not as easy as it is on windows. Using
>editplus (http://www.editplus.com) we can compile source code of almost
>all languages with a single click of a button. Gvim and Emacs are good
>but not as good as some windows editors such as Editplus.
>
>Also, Gvim and Kwrite are not as responsive as editplus. For example
>if I press page down key and don't release it and suddenly I find what
>I was looking for and release the key then Gvim doesn't stop before
>completing all page down events. KWrite is dead slow. Also we have to
>learn those keyboard shortcuts to use vim and emacs.
>
>If something similar to editplus was available on Linux I will never
>use windows again. There are some java editors available like Jedit
>but they are very resource hungry. And don't work well on my slow
>computer. If anyone knows about a good editor for Linux similar to
>editplus then please tell me.
Sigh. If you're interested in linux programs, use a linux mailing list.
Isn't it blindingly obvious that this is a list for discussion about
CYGWIN?
There are all sorts of forums available for linux. You don't need to
pollute this list with this kind of off-topic discussion.
cgf
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