Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: :set compatible Ok, I assumed that would be the same as -v but I'll try it and search the help and web to see if there's a way to do that permanently; thanks. Yeah, and since vim is installed as the default vi replacement on most, if not all Linux systems, that's exactly

Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?

Well, I managed to install vim, but I couldn't get it to emulate vi successfully, I read all the help stuff, and tried "vi -v file", but it was still showing the "~" signs in blue. I did a web search and came up with a port of vi that works under cygwin here: http://www.fay.nc.us/~glenn/cygwin

Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?

Larry Hall wrote: That's great, thanks. If anyone reads the other post I sent here, please ignore it, I was doing something stupid. I sent a cancel, but I have no idea if gmane honours them (mozilla deletes your post from the view

Re: Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?

Larry Hall wrote: > Thanks for the answer Larry. I'll be honest, I'm rather frustrated by this because I can't install the package. This is what happens: I'm doing it as a two-step process, downloading with one hard disk, and insta

Re: Hi, Installing from a CD-ROM.

M.G.A. wrote: Hi, I want to install cygwin on a laptop that doesn't have Internet access, so I want to use a CDROM. I've made a CD with cygwin packages, I have not respected the same structure "release/directoryofpackage" in the ftp mirror. I've read in FAQ that you have to use "install fro

Newbie: Where's ed, vi, more (or less), man?

Hi, a newbie here, my objective was to install Cygwin for a friend so that she could use vi. I've installed cygwin successfully, but various fundamental programs are missing, notably vi (or even ed) more (or less) and man (despite the fact that there are 801 files in /usr/man). I've searched t