On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 04:43:53PM +0100, Erwin Waterlander wrote: >On 03/16/2012 06:53 AM, Earthprime wrote: >> Hi everyone, and thanks for your time and assistance. I'm relatively new to >> UNIX and cygwin and have been mastering the system over the past few days. >> I want to start using TXT editors and GUIs, though I can't figure out how to >> launch them from cygwin, if they come with the install package. Can anyone >> give me the prompt commands to launch a GUI and Text Editor, or tell me >> where to download the apps so I can add them to my BIN folder? > >If you want to use Cygwin to learn about Linux, then it is time to start >using an editor that is also available Linux. > >The to most popular editors are vim and emacs. You can install them via >setup.exe. The standard ones are text-mode versions. > >For vim there is a GUI version named 'gvim'. What I do is install the >normal Windows version of gvim. When you install gvim with the batch >scripts for command-line use, then you can run gvim from the Cygwin >console. You can download gvim from http://www.vim.org >ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim73_46.exe
We obviously have gvim in the distro: http://cygwin.com/packages/gvim Telling someone to use a pure windows version of a tool is just going to confuse them. Use Cygwin tools wherever possible when running in a Cygwin environment. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
