Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm list-help: list-post: Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:08:32 -0400 From: Chris Faylor To: cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: RFD: Include an easy editor in the cygwin-standard-distribution Message-ID: <20000602140832.A1413@cygnus.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com References: <20000602142925 DOT 14204 DOT qmail AT web112 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <20000602113447 DOT E1020 AT cygnus DOT com> <3937ED61 DOT C9B93708 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3937ED61.C9B93708@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:22:41PM -0400 On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:22:41PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> If it must be vim we could use Chuck Wilson's version because it is >> very independant of other packages; I would personally prefer the full >> version with gnome support but that can always be distributed as an >> addon to cygwin. >> > >I was planning to include 'vim' in the group of packages I'm recompiling >for 'official distribution' in latest/extras/ (or latest/../extras/ or >wherever). However, my version of vim is not totally independent; you >still need ncurses and terminfo, which is huge. > >I think vim should be available -- perhaps in the official download site >but not downloaded by default since it's such a big package. I think a >small and easy-to-use editor should be included in the default cygwin >download set -- perhaps 'pico' from the pine suite -- built using >termcap and not terminfo, and without pine-mail integration? We could also just build vim with termcap support. cgf