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: <004d01c4f85d$1c112870$5709a443@c40624a> From: "Raye Raskin" To: References: Subject: Re: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions. Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:13:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes ----- Original Message ----- From: "anamtharon" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:24 PM Subject: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions. > Good morning. > > Since i've updated cygwin i only had time to try out vim again, and there seems to be a problem with > the automatic movement of the input cursor. > > E.g. after simple character input, the cursor isn't moved to the next positon (but vim keeps > overwriting the last character i typed). And when typing a command (with the initial ':'), although > the ':' is getting printed to the proper bottom line, everything i type after that is getting put > into the document view (or wossname), only that this time the cursor position is getting incremented, > so that i actually can write a whole line of command-line text which also even is properly > interpreted as a command. > > But what's really strange, is this. When i now split the screen with ':sp', the upper document view > behaves like the original, but the lower suddenly is working just fine. I can write whole lines of > text, manually move the cursor about, i.e. do all the fancy things i used to do (in the good old > days). > > I look forward to any comments. > anamtharøn As I recall, Cygwin only offers the console version of vim. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If I were you I'd remove your cygwin vim and get the really nice GUI version gvim (and the console version, vim, if you want, as I have) from the vim website at www.vim.org Raye. -- 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/