Re: newbie-Setup issue-VI Editor

[Ken Dibble <kdibble at alltel dot net>]

Seemanto Barua wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> I have installed cygwin for my windows XP from http://cygwin.com/. The
> installation went fine without any errors. But now when i open a
> session by running cygwin.bat I get the minimalistic shell. I dont
> have VI editor.Bash says command not found for 'vi' or 'vim' . Do i
> have to install new packages for VI ? One more thing, do i need to
> install PERL module separetely ?
>  


You'll need to install vim and perl. 
You'll find vim in the editors category and perl in the interpreters 
category using the cygwin setup program.

Ken


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