RE: vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Lars Zeb wrote:
 How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment?
 
 Where can I get vi from?
 
 How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the
 EDITOR shell variable in the Korn shell pointing to the
 editor of choice. There does not seem to be anything like that in
 bash. 
 
 Thanks, Lars
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Same way/place the other cygwin apps came from.

man bash  search for EDITOR

reid

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Re: vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Gene Wilson
The version in Cygwin is called vim and you can install it using the
same setup utility that you used to install cygwin.  It's under
editors.  While you're doing that you could also install pdksh which
is the open implementation of ksh.  It works very well, I use it every
day.

On 4/20/05, Lars Zeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment?
 
 Where can I get vi from?
 
 How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell
 variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There
 does not seem to be anything like that in bash.
 
 Thanks, Lars
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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