Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/11/15:20:41
Well, that's a reasonable recommendation but, as it turns out,
it won't work unless the VIM package is installed and if VIM
is installed, it's not necessary to do this manually, since
the link is created as part of the installation of this package.
Here's the FAQ entry that should prove useful when trying to figure
out what Cygwin package a particular utility is in.
What packages should I download?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC13
Ah the FAQ. It's a wonderfull concept! ;-)
Larry
Original Message:
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From: Corneliu Rudeanu rudy AT viper DOT iasi DOT rdsnet DOT ro
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:01:38 +0200 (EET)
To: Pete DOT Harter AT itt DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin question - hopefully a quickie
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Harter, Pete wrote:
> Christopher:
> I downloaded a version of Cygwin (can't remember the source; one of those
> from the http://www.cygwin.com/ <http://www.cygwin.com/> list) onto my
new
> machine which uses Win 2000 Professional OS. I just now noticed that it
> doesn't recognize the "ex" (batch vi editor) command. I've used Cygwin
> (again, I don't know the source) before on the Win NT environment, and it
> recognized the "ex" command OK.
>
> What can I use as a substitute for the "ex" command?
>
ln -sf /usr/bin/vim.exe /usr/bin/ex
Best Regards,
rudy
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