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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter@lightspeed.net>,
	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Job Control in the Bourne Shell
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990315140908.12190.rocketmail@send106.yahoomail.com> (raw)

---David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter@lightspeed.net> wrote:
--8<--
> One thing to note, though, is that MKS includes the VI editor with
their
> package.  Why doesn't Cygwin include some equivalent of this?  For
the life
> of me, I hate VI and prefer Emacs.  But it is sometimes nice to have
it
> around for quick editing on the fly.  It also comes in handy for
Command
> Line editing too.
--8<--

It is the mission of the cygwin developers to concentrate on the POSIX
layer of the package giving you the ability to build whatever tools
that you need.  Besides there are already ports to win32 of vi or vi
lookalike editors as well as the emacs editor.

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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter@lightspeed.net>,
	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Job Control in the Bourne Shell
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990315140908.12190.rocketmail@send106.yahoomail.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500._xj1ZhifAKgxHboajWlQRRrNV4IzrD2w2FK2VHwa-H8@z> (raw)

---David's Lightspeed Email <dpainter@lightspeed.net> wrote:
--8<--
> One thing to note, though, is that MKS includes the VI editor with
their
> package.  Why doesn't Cygwin include some equivalent of this?  For
the life
> of me, I hate VI and prefer Emacs.  But it is sometimes nice to have
it
> around for quick editing on the fly.  It also comes in handy for
Command
> Line editing too.
--8<--

It is the mission of the cygwin developers to concentrate on the POSIX
layer of the package giving you the ability to build whatever tools
that you need.  Besides there are already ports to win32 of vi or vi
lookalike editors as well as the emacs editor.

==
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----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo----------------------

PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page.
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             reply	other threads:[~1999-03-15  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-15  6:08 Earnie Boyd [this message]
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-14 16:21 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-14 16:16 David's Lightspeed Email
1999-03-31 19:45 ` David's Lightspeed Email

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