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RE: change opening path
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 15:26:02 -0400
- Subject: RE: change opening path
install vim
but maybe one of the other editors might be more to your liking.
At Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:12 PM, Tom Plane wrote:
> Thanks Dave.
>
> I tried this and got an error.
>
> bash: vi: command not found
>
> I did a default install.
>
> A little more help please.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. David Boyd [mailto:dave@adboyd.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:48 AM
> To: Tom Plane
> Subject: Re: change opening path
>
>
> "Tom Plane" <tom@tomplane.com> writes:
>
>> I would love to try this but I don't know how to add the cd command
>> to
>
>> the end of /etc/profile. Can you explain the steps to me?
>>
>
> open a command prompt (bash)
>
> type: cd /etc
> type: vi profile
> press: 'G' to go the end
> press: 'A' to go to the end of the current line in insert mode
> press: enter to open a new line
> type: cd *path_to_wherever*
> type: :wq
>
> restart cygwin
>
> Dave
>
>
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