X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44EDC0CB.5060108@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:07:55 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 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> <44EDBE10 DOT 4010005 AT NOSPAMgmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <44EDBE10.4010005@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: > 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! I see. Well then it sounds like it's time to look into filing a problem report. See the link below for guidelines: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/