Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990315140908.12190.rocketmail@send106.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:09:08 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Job Control in the Bourne Shell To: "David's Lightspeed Email" , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---David's Lightspeed Email wrote: --8<-- > One thing to note, though, is that MKS includes the VI editor with their > package. Why doesn't Cygwin include some equivalent of this? For the life > of me, I hate VI and prefer Emacs. But it is sometimes nice to have it > around for quick editing on the fly. It also comes in handy for Command > Line editing too. --8<-- It is the mission of the cygwin developers to concentrate on the POSIX layer of the package giving you the ability to build whatever tools that you need. Besides there are already ports to win32 of vi or vi lookalike editors as well as the emacs editor. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com