Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/17/13:01:27
Andy Civil wrote:
> Hi, a newbie here, my objective was to install Cygwin for a friend so
> that she could use vi.
>
> I've installed cygwin successfully, but various fundamental programs are
> missing, notably vi (or even ed) more (or less) and man (despite the
> fact that there are 801 files in /usr/man).
>
> I've searched the packages in the setup program, but vi isn't listed
> separately, and I installed everything anyway.
>
> I've tried to search but the package search brings up anything with "vi"
> in it, like "view" or "divide" or "david" :-) and the gmane newsgroup
> search says "ignoring common word: vi".
>
> It would help me if I could know basic information like, should I expect
> to find vi with cygwin? I thought the main advantage of vi over other
> editors was that it was found on absolutely EVERY unix system there was.
> Should I be looking somewhere else for a package? And if so, how do I
> find which package vi is in, when the word "vi" is impossible to search
> for.
Yeah, I guess this one is a little tricky given that the package is vim
and vi is a symlink. Typically, you can limit the search by requesting
the executable name with ".exe" appended but vi is a symlink here which
doesn't have that extension. The other trick that is usually your best
bet is to append "usr/bin/" to the utility you're looking for like so:
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=usr%2Fbin%2Fvi>
I think you should be able to figure it out the proper package from
this. ;-)
> I'm also concerned that I did something wrong, since even "less" doesn't
> work. This is most odd, since there are scripts like "zless" which
> clearly expect "less" to be a valid command.
Following the above:
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=less.exe>
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