I just made the opposite migration. I feel crippled without access to the Unix tools, and I don't have to worry about portability in my Vim scripts if I run Vim through Cygwin.
Thomas On Nov 7, 9:38 am, Vocoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
