Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: dave@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Subject: Re: ed for cygwin Date: 16 Sep 2004 12:36:32 -0400 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <81zn3q2msv.fsf@adboyd.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-IsSubscribed: yes John Proffitt writes: > I have just loaded cygwin on my computer and it looks great. I have started > to experiment with my unix script files to see what modifications will be > needed. Many of my script files use the ed editor to manipulate files and > cygwin does not include the ed editor. > > Is there a line editor that I can use under cygwin? > What text editors are supplied with cygwin? > > Also, I have many perl scripts, how do I load the perl package? > > Thank you very much for your help. > > John Proffitt ed is postively included with Cygwin. It is just not in the default install. Start setup, and go look in the editors section. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/