RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

Hi. So, the issue seems to be the "vim-common" common component includes Perl, and Perl is bringing in all that other stuff. I see there was some discussion on the forums years ago about making this change. It appears that VIM can be built to interface to certain languages like Perl. This is a

Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

Hello. I am wondering why installing VIm installs so many other things:  After doing a default install of Cgwin, and then not finding VIm, I added VIM to the install as well, but found it greatly increased my Cygwin install as follows. Dependencies listed to be installed: crypt libdb4.5 libgb

Get "Couldn't canonicalise" error using sftp and DOS target path, but source path (& scp) is okay.‏

Hello. When trying to sftp a file from one Cygwin machine to another via sftp, I get "Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory." on a target directory in DOS format, unless I specify a cygdrive target path.  I do not get this error on the source directory, even though it is also in DOS