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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andy Civil Subject: Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man? Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:54:24 -0400 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3F40DA90.30405@hotmail.com> References: <3F3F7D83 DOT 3030403 AT hotmail DOT com> <3F3FB3DB DOT 4050401 AT cygwin DOT com> <3F4000A6 DOT 80404 AT hotmail DOT com> <3F4010A3 DOT 5080900 AT hotmail DOT com> <20030818074747 DOT GQ3101 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > :set compatible Ok, I assumed that would be the same as -v but I'll try it and search the help and web to see if there's a way to do that permanently; thanks. > Yeah, and since vim is installed as the default vi replacement on most, > if not all Linux systems, that's exactly the kind of reason which let > people flee from Linux. Sure. I'm not sure I follow your logic but your tone is coming through crystal clear. Given that everyone else appears to accept vim and that the link I posted earlier was to a port that was seriously buggy, and that even "elvis" seems to be "improved" these days, I'll leave vim installed for my friend and see if she accepts it. Thanks for your help. -- Andy -- 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/