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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


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