Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:20:00 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Totte Karlsson wrote: my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a pure vi available and it seems not to be... Then the answer is

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:20:00 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Totte Karlsson wrote: my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a pure vi available and it

RE: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
Igor Pechtchanski scribbled on Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:13 AM: Please don't CC me on mailing list traffic, Thanks and cheers Alejo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote: Igor Pechtchanski scribbled on Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:13 AM: Please don't CC me on mailing list traffic, ^^ Hey, I didn't say *that*! You did. :-) Thanks and cheers Alejo Actually, this

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-21 Thread Totte Karlsson
OK, you are correct, vim is vi! ...it's just spelled different I guess.. Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:25 +0100) does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question! Read my answer: vim behaves like vi, it is called

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Totte Karlsson wrote: How do I get vi working under cygwin? Is it available? Install the vim package, using setup.exe. That is the standard method for isntalling all Cygwin packages. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Totte Karlsson
yeah, I know about the standard method but could not find vi there, only vim. So one should use vim? There is no pure vi? -totte Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Totte Karlsson wrote: How do I get vi working under cygwin? Is it available? Install the

RE: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Message- From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Totte Karlsson Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 4:39 PM To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Subject: Re: vi and cygwin yeah, I know about the standard method but could not find vi

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Totte Karlsson
my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a pure vi available and it seems not to be... thanks though /totte DePriest, Jason R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Not sure what you are trying

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Totte Karlsson wrote: my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a pure vi available and it seems not to be... Then the answer is no. What you see with setup.exe is what you get. (WYSWSIWYG?) Someone out

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Totte Karlsson (2004-02-20 23:49 +0100) my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a pure vi available and it seems not to be... If you knew vim you knew that it has a vi compatibility mode - vim can emulate vi

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Totte Karlsson
does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question! Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Totte Karlsson (2004-02-20 23:49 +0100) my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:25 +0100) does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question! Read my answer: vim behaves like vi, it is called with vi in the shell and therefor it /is/ vi (http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html). The original vi is not free software so you will hardly find

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread James Hu
On 2004-02-21, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:25 +0100) does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question! The original vi is not free software so you will hardly find it on any Linux machine (same with ksh for example). Not quite true. http://ex-vi.berlios.de/ -- James