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-Sent: 5 Jun 2003 00:47:03 GMT Message-ID: <000e01c32afb$fc420990$ef00a8c0@spiderman> From: "Brett Serkez \(cygwin\)" To: References: <20030601193755 DOT GD875 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Subject: Re: Updated: vim-6.2-1 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:36:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h550lK920937 Corinna, Looks like this version of vim doesn't have GUI support compiled in. Are there any plans to build GUI support so that vim -g works on Cygwin? Thanks, Brett --------------------------------------------------------------- Brett C. Serkez ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:37 PM Subject: Updated: vim-6.2-1 > I've updated the version of vim to 6.2-1. > > This version is an update to the today's release of Vim 6.2. > > It should be available on the mirrors within a few hours. Like previous > versions it's build with multibyte editing support but without any > interpreter support. > > The official release message: > ======================================================================= > Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 6.2 - the Amiga memorial edition > Author: Bram Moolenaar et al. > > > Announcement > ------------ > > This is a bugfix release of Vim. Since Vim 6.1 hundreds of reported > problems have been fixed. Also included are new and updated syntax > files, translated menus and messages. > > The main new features are: > - Support for GTK 2. (Daniel Elstner) > - Support for editing Arabic text. (Nadim Shaikli & Isam Bayazidi) > - ":try" command and exception handling. (Servatius Brandt) > - Support for the neXtaw GUI toolkit (mostly like Athena). (Alexey Froloff) > - Cscope support for Win32. (Sergey Khorev) > - Support for PostScript printing in various 8-bit encodings. (Mike Williams) > > Once you have installed 6.2 you can find details about the changes > since Vim 6.1 with ":help version-6.2". There is a long list of fixed > bugs. > > What is Vim? > ------------ > > Vim is an almost 100% compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new > features have been added: Multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line > history, filename completion, block operations, etc. Those who don't know Vi > can probably skip this message, unless you are prepared to learn something new > and useful. Vim is especially recommended for editing programs. > > Vim runs on almost any Unix flavor, MS-DOS, MS-Windows 3.1, MS-Windows > 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, Atari MiNT, BeOS, VMS, RISC OS, Macintosh and > Amiga. > > For more information, see http://www.vim.org. This is also a great place > to find Vim tips and scripts! > > Where to get it > --------------- > > Information about which files to download for what system: > > http://www.vim.org/download.php > > All files can be found below these directories: > > ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/ > http://ftp.vim.org/editors/vim/ > > A list of mirror sites can be found here: > > http://www.vim.org/mirrors.php > > An overview of the files: > > UNIX: > unix/vim-6.2.tar.bz2 sources + runtime files, bzip2 compressed > unix/vim-6.2-rt1.tar.gz runtime files part 1 > unix/vim-6.2-rt2.tar.gz runtime files part 2 > unix/vim-6.2-src1.tar.gz sources part 1 > unix/vim-6.2-src2.tar.gz sources part 2 > unix/vim-6.1-6.2.diff.gz diff between 6.1 and 6.2 > > VARIOUS: > extra/vim-6.2-extra.tar.gz extra files > extra/vim-6.2-lang.tar.gz multi-language files > extra/vim-6.1-6.2-extra.diff.gz extra files diff > extra/vim-6.1-6.2-lang.diff.gz language files diff > doc/vim62html.zip help files converted to HTML > > MS-WINDOWS: > pc/gvim62.exe self-installing, includes all runtime files > pc/vim62rt.zip runtime files (all of them) > pc/vim62lang.zip files for translated messages and menus > pc/gvim62.zip GUI binary for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP > pc/gvim62ole.zip GUI binary with OLE support > pc/vim62d16.zip 16 bits real mode - works on any system > pc/vim62d32.zip 32 bits protected mode - needs 386 and DPMI > pc/vim62w32.zip console version for Windows NT/2000/XP > pc/vim62src.zip sources for PC (with CR-LF) > > AMIGA: > amiga/vim62rt.tgz runtime files (always needed) > amiga/vim62src.tgz sources packed for Amiga > (no binary yet, sorry) > > > Mailing lists > ------------- > > For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list. There are a > lot of tips, scripts and solutions. You can ask your Vim questions, but > only if you subscribe. See http://www.vim.org/maillist.php. An archive > is kept at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim. > > If you want to help Vim development or get the latest patches, subscribe > to the vim-dev mailing list. An archive is kept at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev. > > Subject specific lists: > Multi-byte issues: vim-multibyte http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim-multibyte > Macintosh issues: vim-mac http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim-mac > > > Reporting bugs > -------------- > > Send them to . Please describe the problem precisely. > All the time spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is > spent on improving Vim! Always give a reproducable example and try to > find out which settings or other things influence the appearance of the > bug. Try starting without your own vimrc file: "vim -u NONE -U NONE". > Try different machines if possible. See ":help bugs" in Vim. Send me a > patch if you can! > > If something needs discussing with other developers, send a message to the > vim-dev mailing list. You need to subscribe first. > > > Happy Vimming! > ======================================================================= > > To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on > the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your > system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. > > If you have general questions or comments, please send them to the > Cygwin mailing list at: "cygwin at cygwin dot com". I would appreciate > it if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. > > *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** > > If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look > at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. > Send email to the address specified there. 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