Subject: Re: New Installation
From: [email-masked] (Jeff Sturm)

20 Oct 1998 19:52:33 -0700
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To: Stephen Marley <[email-masked]>
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Stephen Marley wrote:
> 
> On 17 October 1998, Michael Hirmke wrote:
> >
> > Get vim from
> > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/Hirmke_Michael
> 
> I don't get it. Why should one use a Cygwin32 version of Vim when
> perfectly acceptable Win32 native ports (gui and console) exist?

A native cygwin32 port just works better, especially for bash users...
it understands cygwin32 mount points, symbolic links, and has better tty
handling, for example it understands the SIGWINCH signal indicating that
the window size has changed.

-- 
Jeff Sturm
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