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 Message-ID: <4842b21805042108046cf5f0cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:04:52 -0400 From: Gene Wilson Reply-To: Gene Wilson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: vi installation In-Reply-To: <2ktc61dedbk61njdgmprhsmsk13j6a4cni@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <2ktc61dedbk61njdgmprhsmsk13j6a4cni@4ax.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j3LGplVa004424 The version in Cygwin is called "vim" and you can install it using the same setup utility that you used to install cygwin. It's under editors. While you're doing that you could also install "pdksh" which is the open implementation of ksh. It works very well, I use it every day. On 4/20/05, Lars Zeb wrote: > How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment? > > Where can I get vi from? > > How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell > variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There > does not seem to be anything like that in bash. > > Thanks, Lars > -- > larzeb2000@yahoo.com > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/