X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:53:49 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1794972392.20120316215349@mtu-net.ru> To: Andrew DeFaria , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Looking for txt editors, GUI - New to CYGWIN In-Reply-To: References: <33517284.post@talk.nabble.com> <33517488.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! >> Thanks, that helps! I am trying to learn more about Apps and how they work >> with UNIX. Are there any TextEditor or GUI apps that I can download and put >> into the BIN, and then execute them from Cygwin? > Most people use vim, vim have two modes of work: in first one it beeps, in second - breaks everything. > BTW: You don't "download and put into the BIN" anything. You use > setup.exe to "install" Cygwin apps. You could augment your PATH to > include paths to other editors/apps on your system but if your trying to > use the command line as simply a launcher of other, non-Cygwin Windows > apps then you're not really getting it... Moreover, you don't need to do either. Just get a text editor that suits your needs. Notepad+ is often suggested. I'm using Far manager's internal editor. (Which is far more powerful.) -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 16.03.2012, <21:51> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple