Yes, I had success with the text editor nano (the pico lookalike - but better) available from www.nano-editor.org. It comes as a .tar.gz file that you can explode in the usual way. After
./compile there's a Makefile file that leads inexorably to an installation failure unless it is first edited. As follows: find the line LIBS = -lncurses in Makefile and change it to LIBS = -lncurses -lintl Then (well: this was my experience anyway) the two lines make make install work perfectly: and hey presto, I've got nano. Note 1. Sorry, I've no idea whether this will work for you and what you want. Note 2. It would be nice if nano could be one of the applications provided direct from Cygwin, but I don't know how to ask, or who to ask; and I will probably be told: "You want it, you do it" which is perfectly fair, except that I don't know how to do it. (Provide it, that is.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/