copying and pasting in the terminal window?

[John Salerno]

John Salerno wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> 
>>> Cygwin also has an rxvt terminal emulator that may be more to your 
>>> liking, but I haven't used it and so can't tell you what it's like.
>>
>> It's awesome, if you're still using the DOS box change over immediately.
>> Believe me now and thank me later.
> 
> Yes, it is quite nice. But I'm a little stuck. I'm trying to edit the 
> .bashrc file with vim, so I type 'vim .bashrc', and nothing happens. The 
> cursor moves down to the next line, but vim isn't really being invoked, 
> the file doesn't open, but I also don't get any error message saying 
> that bash can't find the vim command. I'm not sure why I won't work.
> 
> Also, is there a way to change the color of the user name and 
> directories that appear above the $ prompt? I find the bright green and 
> pale yellow not very easy to read with my white background.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Well, nevermind about the colors, because after doing some editing to 
the .bashrc file, this fixed things. But I still had to open up the file 
with a separate editor, because vim isn't working!

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