X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F636182.9000209@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:51:30 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Looking for txt editors, GUI - New to CYGWIN References: <33517284 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <4F635FB9 DOT 7020500 AT xs4all DOT nl> In-Reply-To: <4F635FB9.7020500@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown AT cornell DOT edu - Fri Mar 16 11:51:28 2012 X-PMX-CORNELL-REASON: CU_White_List_Override X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 3/16/2012 11:43 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: > On 03/16/2012 06:53 AM, Earthprime wrote: >> Hi everyone, and thanks for your time and assistance. I'm relatively >> new to >> UNIX and cygwin and have been mastering the system over the past few >> days. >> I want to start using TXT editors and GUIs, though I can't figure out >> how to >> launch them from cygwin, if they come with the install package. Can >> anyone >> give me the prompt commands to launch a GUI and Text Editor, or tell me >> where to download the apps so I can add them to my BIN folder? > > If you want to use Cygwin to learn about Linux, then it is time to start > using an editor that is also available Linux. > > The to most popular editors are vim and emacs. You can install them via > setup.exe. The standard ones are text-mode versions. > > For vim there is a GUI version named 'gvim'. What I do is install the > normal Windows version of gvim. When you install gvim with the batch > scripts for command-line use, then you can run gvim from the Cygwin > console. You can download gvim from http://www.vim.org > ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim73_46.exe > > I have never used emacs. You get a GUI version of emacs by installing an X server and the emacs-X11 package. Typing "emacs &" in an xterm window will then start a GUI emacs in a new window. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple