newbie qns

newbie qns

[Arafat Mohamed]

I have 2 qns i need help with.

1) I can use locate but not updatedb. What is the equivalent of updatedb in
cygwin?

2) Why can't I get color syntaxing when I use rxvt? I can use it fine in a
normal cygwin shell

thanks,
Arafat


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Re: newbie qns

[Michael Schaap]

At 22:23 17-7-2001, Arafat Mohamed wrote:
>2) Why can't I get color syntaxing when I use rxvt? I can use it fine in a
>normal cygwin shell

Assuming you're talking about vi(m), make sure TERM=rxvt.
(For some reason, rxvt sets TERM=xterm.)

  - Michael


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updatdb & rxvt (was: Re: newbie qns)

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Am 17 Jul 2001, um 16:23 hat Arafat Mohamed geschrieben:

Hi Arafat,

> I have 2 qns i need help with.
> 
> 1) I can use locate but not updatedb. What is the equivalent of
> updatedb in cygwin?

It is not included in findutils which comes with cygwin.
You could get it elsewhere, built it for yourself or get my binary:
http://familiehaase.de/cygwin.html

> 2) Why can't I get color syntaxing when I use rxvt? I can use it fine
> in a normal cygwin shell

Hmmm, i am at win98, it works fine with vim and also if i do ls.
I did nothing special. I remember having problems too at NT with vim
syntax highlighting which i was not able to resolve.

Unfortunately i cannot call rxvt from a shortcut here at Win98, but 
it works well if i start it from a shell window with this command:

$ rxvt.exe -geometry 90x30 -bg black -fg grey -cr red -sr -sl 400 \
   -fn "Lucida Console-14" -tn cygwin -ls -e bash --login -i

gph


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RE: newbie qns

[Michael Schaap]

At 23:50 17-7-2001, first last wrote:
>Thanks for your prompt response. I did mean vim. I typed TERM=rxvt at the
>bash prompt and verified that it was set correctly.  syntax coloring still
>not working in vim :( Also, how do i permanently set TERM=rxvt?

Try changing you shortcut to rxvt (or whatever way you start rxvt): add the 
option
         -tn rxvt

For example: my shortcut has as a target
         D:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -bg FloralWhite -fg black -cr orange -fn 
"Lucida Sans Typewriter-13" -fb "Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold-13" -sr -sl 
5000 -g 80x40 -tn rxvt -e /usr/local/bin/zsh -l -i

  - Michael


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RE: newbie qns

[Darius.Clynes]

I got vi syntax to work under rxvt by setting  TERM=cygwin.

here is the command that worked for me (from normal cygwin bash)

rxvt -e vi -T cygwin -c "syntax on" yourfile.c &

i also made an alias

alias vix='rxvt -e vi -T cygwin -c "syntax on"'

then just say

vix yourfile.c &

hopes this works for you.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Schaap [ mailto:cygwin@mscha.com ]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 11:08 PM
>To: Arafat Mohamed; cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: newbie qns
>
>
>At 22:23 17-7-2001, Arafat Mohamed wrote:
>>2) Why can't I get color syntaxing when I use rxvt? I can use 
>it fine in a
>>normal cygwin shell
>
>Assuming you're talking about vi(m), make sure TERM=rxvt.
>(For some reason, rxvt sets TERM=xterm.)
>
>  - Michael
>
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