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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: change opening path
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:26:02 -0400
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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" <tom AT tomplane DOT com> 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
> 
> 
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