<p>I gave up on cygwin a while ago. While I liked the idea, I found I liked using applications native to an os more than spending hours trying to make things work. +1 to kenny's comment, and i'll add a distaste for wine as well.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2011 5:38 PM, "Kenneth Younger" <<a href="mailto:kyounger@gmail.com" target="_blank">kyounger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Any reason not to use gvim?<br>
> On Mar 16, 2011 2:58 PM, "Josh More" <<a href="mailto:MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net" target="_blank">MoreJ@alliancetechnologies.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Yeah.<br>>><br>>> I just copy the .vimrc file from a Linux system into the other wacky<br>> environments. All of those behaviors can be defined in the config file by<br>> hand if you wish... or you can just grab one that works.<br>
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> Todd Walton [<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com" target="_blank">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>]<br>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 14:55<br>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>>> Subject: [Cialug] vim on cygwin<br>
>><br>>> Why is vim on cygwin so wonky? For example, 'i' for insert mode<br>>> doesn't do what I expect it to do. Then even when I do manage to get<br>>> into insert mode a backspace doesn't delete the preceding character<br>
>> and move the cursor.<br>>><br>>> Anyone have any experience with this? I'm not even quite sure how to<br>>> describe what's going wrong.<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Todd<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>
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