Message-Id: <200305010602.h41628117384@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Path: not-for-mail From: news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support? X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin References: <000201c30f4c$1b2449c0$1403a8c0 AT sc DOT tlinx DOT org> Organization: To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Gate: Hamster/1.3.23.185 NewsToMail-Gate Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:57:31 +0200 "linda w \(cyg\)" wrote: > Geez...you'd be surpised at the people who use cygwin on Windows. > > I'm using Windows primarily because I can't reliably and long term > due Linux development right now directly. Linux used to be my > primary desktop, but some bad RSI, double crush nerves (RSI caused > by manager who was allowed to do with me as he pleased). You can get RSI like /that/? Live and learn, live and learn... > While I used to do alot of edit/builds, I'm more mousing around and > doing the occasional script/email while my body heals -- which isn't > going fast. I got a twing of RSI-type pain in my wrist and switched mouse-hand as a result. So far, all seems fine. Maybe you want to give it a try. For me at least it seems to be the mouse what done it, not the typing. I also made sure I got work to provide wrist supports for mouse and keyboard hoping to stave off another attack. > I can't even pull items out of the perl lib and have them build -- > even in a str8 linux env. It's frustrating that they list all of these > nice modules, you pull one out to use, and it just up and doesn't > work for one reason or another. Doesn't anyone test their code or > is that always expected of end-users these days. Are you feeling better after that little rantette? :-) -- 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/