From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3805 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2016 06:52:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3796 invoked by uid 89); 9 Oct 2016 06:52:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=supplies, H*i:sk:ed28bb6, H*MI:sk:ed28bb6, H*f:sk:ed28bb6 X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 06:52:03 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id u996ejt0048176 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2016 23:40:47 -0700 Message-ID: <57F9E8FF.7060007@tlinx.org> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 06:56:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote... References: <878tu1qtes.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <57F6966E.4050303@tlinx.org> <874m4pqp27.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <57F6E725.9090001@tlinx.org> <892577849.20161007133108@yandex.ru> <57F81BD9.8090502@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2016-10-07 16:04, Linda Walsh wrote: >> ... what affect >> on the cygwin installation would be if you didn't install the base >> vim package? Just a thought. > > Type v inside a PAGER (e.g. less or more). > Run an editor on the current (long) command line in readline or shell > history. > Edit a commit message in any VCS. > Edit crontab entries. > You can change some of these if you prefer ed or emacs (EDITOR, VISUAL), > and ex is a symlink to vi (vim-minimal). --- Good point -- but none of those should cease to run if you are putting your own "well working" version of vim it its place -- which was where this got started in someone desiring to put their own version on their machine. FWIW, I've run my own compiled Gvim version on linux for years and had fewer problems. My linux distro supplies a version that links with various languages (ruby, python, perl, etc) -- but they don't use run-time dynamic loading, so if something happens and the versions don't match (they must match, even, the patch-levels) then neither vim nor gvim can be used as an editor. Such was sufficient reason for me to build and replace the OS-instance of vim/gvim. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple