Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <395B5A72.D9775F8F@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 16:17:22 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen Reply-To: cygwin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael H. Warfield" CC: cygwin Subject: Re: Looking for a gooood port of VI for cygwin... References: <004901bfe1c0$704677a0$61241004@homepc.freedsl.com> <395B385A.1877F6BD@cygnus.com> <20000629094719.A29666@alcove.wittsend.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Michael H. Warfield" wrote: > > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Hirmke_Michael/1.0/ > > How about VIM? > > It's now my preferred flavor of vi on both Unix (*BSD and Linux) > and on Windows. Their site includes Windows binaries. It supports color > syntax highlighting, multiple windows, multiple undo/redo, and works with > cscope as a few of it's optional enhancements. Which all is supported on both, Windows _and_ U*X (as far as color is supported by the terminal/terminal emu). The Windows port on their site is plain Win32. No Cygwin support. This is only supported by Cygwin ports like the above on ftp.franken.de. > Other than the multiple redo/undo, I'm unaware of any significant > differences between pure vi and vim. > > Pure vi uses 'u' to undo and 'u' again to redo for a single level > undo. VIM uses 'u' to undo and '^r' to redo and you can undo and redo > multiple levels. For purists: :set compatible Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Developer Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com