[Cialug] vim on cygwin

[Theron Conrey]

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.
On Mar 16, 2011 5:38 PM, "Kenneth Younger" <kyounger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any reason not to use gvim?
> On Mar 16, 2011 2:58 PM, "Josh More" <MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>
wrote:
>> Yeah.
>>
>> I just copy the .vimrc file from a Linux system into the other wacky
> environments. All of those behaviors can be defined in the config file by
> hand if you wish... or you can just grab one that works.
>>
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>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of
> Todd Walton [tdwalton at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 14:55
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: [Cialug] vim on cygwin
>>
>> Why is vim on cygwin so wonky? For example, 'i' for insert mode
>> doesn't do what I expect it to do. Then even when I do manage to get
>> into insert mode a backspace doesn't delete the preceding character
>> and move the cursor.
>>
>> Anyone have any experience with this? I'm not even quite sure how to
>> describe what's going wrong.
>>
>> --
>> Todd
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