Thanks Ben. I ended up d/l the windoze binary and running it under XP. Now it rocks :)
On Nov 7, 1:45 am, Ben Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just had a similar experience yesterday. You can go directly to the > mirrors. > > Mirror list:http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html > > One pick:ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/release/vim/ > (Many sites under North America.) > > They have binaries and sources. > > Regards, > > Ben Kim > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Vocoda wrote: > > > Yeah that's what I guessed, after 2 hours of google searching. > > Looks like Vim wasn't in the packages I originally downloaded, because > > it didn't show up when I ran setup again to install the packages from > > the d/l directory. > > A bit confusing the first time, for some reason I wrongly assumed that > > all packages should show up in the installation list. > > Finally found Vim in the install list when I downloaded the packages a > > second time. Thanks heaps. > > > On Nov 6, 7:54쟰m, Tom Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Is this some kind of trick to fool Windozers? > > >> The only trick is: > > >>> Installing is done with the Cygwin setup.exe. > > >> If you want to install a cygwin package, you should select it in > >> setup.exe's package list. The package will be downloaded & installed. > >> That's all. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
