X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44EDBE10.4010005@NOSPAMgmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:56:16 -0400 From: John Salerno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window? References: <001b01c6c708$4c5284e0$020aa8c0 AT DFW5RB41> <44EDB889 DOT 5090007 AT NOSPAMgmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <44EDB889.5090007@NOSPAMgmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 John Salerno wrote: > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >>> Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your >>> liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like. >> >> It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately. >> Believe me now and thank me later. > > Yes, it is quite nice. But I'm a little stuck. I'm trying to edit the > .bashrc file with vim, so I type 'vim .bashrc', and nothing happens. The > cursor moves down to the next line, but vim isn't really being invoked, > the file doesn't open, but I also don't get any error message saying > that bash can't find the vim command. I'm not sure why I won't work. > > Also, is there a way to change the color of the user name and > directories that appear above the $ prompt? I find the bright green and > pale yellow not very easy to read with my white background. > > Thanks. > Well, nevermind about the colors, because after doing some editing to the .bashrc file, this fixed things. But I still had to open up the file with a separate editor, because vim isn't working! -- 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/