cygwin, latex, and vim

Jeff Homer jeff@cis.jhu.edu
Wed Mar 7 07:21:00 GMT 2001


I installed the version that the "Install Cygwin Now" puts on, all
updated- my bad, it's version 1.1.8 it seems :|

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Jeff Homer wrote:
> > 
> > I was curios if anyone had the same prob and found a fix:
> > 
> > When Latex runs, and drops to a ? prompt, one hit's "e" to edit the file
> > at the line of error
> > 
> > In the 2.0 cygwin, when I hit e, it goes into vim and looks normal,
> > but any command such as :q responds with bash: :q command not found
> > 
> > it seems that it opens the vi displays the file, and vi then drops to the
> > background
> > 
> > I've tried various TERM setting with vi -T, tried cmd.exe /K vim ...
> > but can't seem to fix the behaviour
> > 
> > any suggestions ?
> > 
> 
> I'm going to assume that by 2.0 cygwin you mean version B20 since
> version 2.0 doesn't exist.  If that is the case then you definitely need
> to update using http://cygwin.com/setup.exe before anyone can help
> further.
> 
> Earnie.
> 
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