RE: silly vi question

  • From: "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx'" <shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx>, reginald.w.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:56:11 -0500

Another version of "vi" for Winduhs can be found at www.cygwin.com.
Install everything and you'll get vim for Winduhs. It can make your Winduhs
look half way decent. Here are commands that you don't frequently see on
a Winduhs workstation:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 SVetsa-IT 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin

$ ls -l /usr/bin/vi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 MGogala  Users           7 Nov 24 09:37 /usr/bin/vi ->
vim.exe

MGogala@SVetsa-IT /cygdrive/c/tmp

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-----Original Message-----
From: Shrek [mailto:shrekdba@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:49 AM
To: reginald.w.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: meenakshi.aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: silly vi question

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:33:11 -0600, reginald.w.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<reginald.w.bailey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Where do you download the WinVI from?

VIM is better.

www.vim.org

has syntax highlighting built in and comes with it already set up.

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