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Re: Looking for txt editors, GUI - New to CYGWIN
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:17:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: Looking for txt editors, GUI - New to CYGWIN
- References: <33517284.post@talk.nabble.com> <4F635FB9.7020500@xs4all.nl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
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