Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
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: <008901c40eb1$2907bdf0$a16bd6d1@dell03>
Reply-To: "Charles D. Russell" <worwor AT bellsouth DOT net>
From: "Charles D. Russell" <worwor AT bellsouth DOT net>
To: "cygwin cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: text editor for cygwin
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:25:28 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

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.
_______________________

"Package" was the wrong word, since it has a specific technical meaning, but
there is an option in cygwin setup, labelled "development",  that downloads
a fairly complete unix programming environment -- except for an editor.  I
now have in my personal installation notes a memo not to forget about the
editor, but why confuse new users?


--
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/