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Re: text editor for cygwin


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Charles D. Russell wrote:

> It has always seemed strange to me that vim was not included in the
> "development" package, since vi is a normal component of linux/unix.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

Again, there is no "development" package in Cygwin.  There are individual
packages for things like "vim", and "bash", and "sed", and "sh-utils",
etc.  There was a suggestion of implementing "profiles" for Cygwin that
bundle various packages for specific usage patterns, but nobody has gotten
around to implementing it yet.
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"Package" was the wrong word, since it has a specific technical meaning, but
there is an option in cygwin setup, labelled "development",  that downloads
a fairly complete unix programming environment -- except for an editor.  I
now have in my personal installation notes a memo not to forget about the
editor, but why confuse new users?


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