Re: text editor for cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher Spears wrote:

> I installed cygwin with the shells package on my
> computer with Windows 2000.  However, I discovered
> that I don't have vi or vim.  Is there a way to
> download one of these (or a different) text editor
> into cygwin?  Which text editors would you recommend?
>
> -Chris

Chris,

There is no "Shells" package under Cygwin.  Do you mean to say that you've
installed all packages in the "Shells" category (i.e., "ash", "bash",
"clisp", "mc", "pdksh", "rxvt", "sh-utils", "tcsh", and "zsh")?

Most of the editors in Cygwin are found in the "Editors" category.  As of
today, you have a choice of (in alphabetical order): "ed" (if you're
desperate), "emacs", "emacs-X11" (requires X), "mc", "nano", "nedit"
(requires X), "vim", and "xemacs".  There's also "pico", which comes with
the "pine" package (in the "Mail" category).  Note that some of these
require other support packages, and some are quite huge.

FYI, if you're looking for a specific package, you can switch setup to the
"Full" view, which will show you all available packages sorted
alphabetically.
	Igor
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