On 2007-09-15, "Ed S. Peschko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All (especially Bram ;)), > > I know it's been discussed before, but how easy would it be to make: > > 1. uniq (and other commonly used %! commands to sort input) native > to vim. > 2. vim take a list of files as an input (ie: vim -l filelist) > > My goal is to try to make native win32 as comfortable to work on as unix, and > these two issues keep popping up - and I'm sure I can think of others. In the > above case, I end up ftp'ing files over to unix to do stuff like this, and > then > re-ftp'ing over the files to the win32 machine to process. > > Any ideas to get around this would be greatly appreciated as well as maybe > adding to the above list, but I don't see any easy workarounds.
Please don't start new threads by replying to other posts. It makes your message appear to be part of the thread to which you replied. Just send an original message to the list address. Since uniq and other external programs already exist and since vim supports the use of such external programs, there is no good reason to include the functionality of those programs within vim. It would be a huge waste of Bram's time. If you want Windows to be as comfortable to use as Unix, I suggest that you install Cygwin (www.cygwin.com). It is great. The Cygwin team seems to do a good job of keeping the vim package up to date with patches, although it's also very easy to build vim on Cygwin if you really want the latest patches. You can then do #1 as easily on Windows as you can on Unix, and the solution to #2 becomes vim $(< filelist) You can also use Cygwin tools with the native Windows gvim, but it becomes a little tricky, depending on what you're trying to do. You might find Luc Hermitte's pages on Cygwin and vim useful: http://hermitte.free.fr/ Regards, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
