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: From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: change opening path Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:26:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes install vim but maybe one of the other editors might be more to your liking. At Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:12 PM, Tom Plane wrote: > Thanks Dave. > > I tried this and got an error. > > bash: vi: command not found > > I did a default install. > > A little more help please. > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: J. David Boyd [mailto:dave AT adboyd DOT com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:48 AM > To: Tom Plane > Subject: Re: change opening path > > > "Tom Plane" writes: > >> I would love to try this but I don't know how to add the cd command >> to > >> the end of /etc/profile. Can you explain the steps to me? >> > > open a command prompt (bash) > > type: cd /etc > type: vi profile > press: 'G' to go the end > press: 'A' to go to the end of the current line in insert mode > press: enter to open a new line > type: cd *path_to_wherever* > type: :wq > > restart cygwin > > Dave > > > -- > 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/ -- 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/