On Aug 15, 6:36 am, Matt Wozniski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:27 PM, John Little wrote: > > I'd personally highly recommend PuTTY over cmd.exe + cygwin ssh. > Cygwin is great for a lot of things, but setting up a Cygwin > environment just for ssh is like using a cruise missile to light a > cigarette. If you really want to work with Cygwin, I'd go with Cygwin > + X11 + xterm + ssh... if you've got a full unix environment set up, > might as well use it. xterm is a much more feature-filled terminal > emulator than cmd.exe, and mouse support will Just Work for you with > both Cygwin/X + xterm and with PuTTY.
Thank you Matt. 1/ Of course I tried PuTTY first, but I had the following problems for which I found no work-arounds. a/ When you launch Vim in you PuTTY terminal and want to go to the top or bottom of your file in insert mode (with CTRL-Home, CTRL-End keys), you quickly realize that these two essential keys are completely mute (they do not even generate escape sequences that you could map). Very annoying for me to type CTRL-O/gg and CTRL-O/G each time (I love insert mode!). b/ When you open a second tab with :tabe file2 and want to switch quickly between the tabs, you type CTRL-PageUp or CTRL-PageDown and you realize that these 2 essential keys are captured by PuTTY to show the lines preceding the Vim information (not very useful in my opinion). Not very comfortable to click on the tabs (with Vim you become mouse phobic!) For the above 2 reasons, I abandonned PuTTY when I discovered its cousin Mintty which does not suffer from the above flaws. Following Corinna, I strongly recommend Mintty (a plus is that its author, Andy Koppe, answers to all questions within 10 mns). 2/ Thank you for your suggestions concerning colors, I will have a look. 3/ Cygwin X11 + xterm + ssh works but is a bit slower than Mintty and has a little imperfection when launching Vim (on a slow connection, you see characters displaying rapidly at the cursor position: not very clean). Best regards, Jean Johner -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
