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From: gene <gene.smith@sea.siemens.com>
Subject: Re: GVIM
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:59:57 +0000 (UTC)
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Crescioli, Phil <Phil.Crescioli <at> gd-ais.com> writes:

> 
> Hello all,
> Why is only VIM and not GVIM included with the Cygwin package?
> I'd love to use GVIM straight from a Cygwin install.
> Phil Crescioli
> Phil.Crescioli <at> gd-ais.com
> 
> 


I think it is because gvim for unix requires X11 while vim does not. 
I use and installed the gvim for windows and run it from with rxvt terminals in
cygwin and it works fine. The only problem I had was that it would not orginally
accept unix style pathnames (forward slashes). I had to put in an add on
packaage to get the pathnames to work right. If you are interested I will look
up what that package was.
-gene


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