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 Message-ID: <01c501c397dc$c47afe60$cd8a9dc0@uk.aonix.com> From: "Cliff Hones" To: "zzapper" , References: <3F9526A2 DOT 3080406 AT etr-usa DOT com> Subject: Re: Command Line Editting in VI mode Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:08:12 +0100 Organization: Aonix Europe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 zzapper wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 06:29:22 -0600, Warren Young > wrote: > > >zzapper wrote: > > > >> is there any way of defaulting to Vi mode? Or any other advice? > > > >Start it via 'ex' when you know you want the line editor. That's the > >line editor underlying vi. Start it via 'vi' only when you want visual > >editing. > > PMI (Pardon My Ignorance) How do I do that? /usr/bin/ex should be a symbolic link to vim. When vim is invoked as ex, it starts in command line mode. So just $ ex -- Cliff -- 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/