Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/24/11:08:15
John Salerno wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>
>>>> Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your
>>>> liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like.
>>>
>>> It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately.
>>> Believe me now and thank me later.
>>
>> Yes, it is quite nice. But I'm a little stuck. I'm trying to edit the
>> .bashrc file with vim, so I type 'vim .bashrc', and nothing happens.
>> The cursor moves down to the next line, but vim isn't really being
>> invoked, the file doesn't open, but I also don't get any error message
>> saying that bash can't find the vim command. I'm not sure why I won't
>> work.
>>
>> Also, is there a way to change the color of the user name and
>> directories that appear above the $ prompt? I find the bright green
>> and pale yellow not very easy to read with my white background.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Well, nevermind about the colors, because after doing some editing to
> the .bashrc file, this fixed things. But I still had to open up the file
> with a separate editor, because vim isn't working!
I see. Well then it sounds like it's time to look into filing a problem
report. See the link below for guidelines:
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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