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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:08:40 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "Charles D. Russell" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: text editor for cygwin In-Reply-To: <008301c40ea4$eb939680$a16bd6d1@dell03> Message-ID: References: <008301c40ea4$eb939680$a16bd6d1 AT dell03> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Charles D. Russell wrote: > It has always seemed strange to me that vim was not included in the > "development" package, since vi is a normal component of linux/unix. Again, there is no "development" package in Cygwin. There are individual packages for things like "vim", and "bash", and "sed", and "sh-utils", etc. There was a suggestion of implementing "profiles" for Cygwin that bundle various packages for specific usage patterns, but nobody has gotten around to implementing it yet. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/