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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:04:52 -0400
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Subject: Re: vi installation
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The version in Cygwin is called "vim" and you can install it using the
same setup utility that you used to install cygwin.  It's under
editors.  While you're doing that you could also install "pdksh" which
is the open implementation of ksh.  It works very well, I use it every
day.

On 4/20/05, Lars Zeb <larzeb2000 AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment?
> 
> Where can I get vi from?
> 
> How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell
> variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There
> does not seem to be anything like that in bash.
> 
> Thanks, Lars
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