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Re: Where is emacs & vi in Cygwin


On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, doug foxvog wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I just downloaded cygwin-1.5.7-1 and set it up, including
> everything and did not find either emacs or vi.  I haven't
> checked to see what else is missing.  Is there some other
> file to download to get these editors?
>
> [I downloaded from the NASA site & had the same result when
> i picked another mirror to download from.]
>
> doug foxvog

Please see

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

for the guidelines on reporting problems with Cygwin (especially the part
about attaching to your message, as an uncompressed text *attachment*, the
output of "cygcheck -svr").

Without the cygcheck output, I can take a couple of guesses about what
happened: either you didn't install the vim and emacs packages, or you
did, but are trying to invoke "vi/emacs" from a DOS (cmd.exe) window.  If
the former, run setup.exe again and look in the Editors category.  If the
latter, make sure "c:\cygwin\bin" is in your Windows PATH. Also, "vi" in
Cygwin is a symbolic link to an executable named "vim.exe", so you'll have
to invoke it as "vim".
	Igor
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