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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: vim binary package
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On Dec 20 15:30, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> I'm not much of a vim user myself, but with the menus, gvim is a lot
> easier to learn.
> 
> Of course, in order to get a GTK vim into the distro, Corinna will need
> to be consulted, as the Cygwin vim maintainer.

I am a vim user and I'm doing all editing with it.

That said, if somebody is going to maintain a gvim version as part of
the Cygwin net distro, cool with me, as long as it uses the runtime
files of the vim base package.  I, for one, will not maintain a GUI
version of vim and IMHO the base version of vim should remain a CLI-only
version.


Corinna

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