From: L Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I ran "cygcheck -s" on my system and noticed the comment "Not found: > vi". A search of the web and Cygwin archives seems to indicate that vi > is not a Cygwin package and it doesn't show up in Setup. Therefore, the > comment seems a bit like saying that oat meal is cholesterol free or > "Not found: elephants". :-)
Actually, vi IS distributed by cygwin - it is a symlink created by the vim package. Once cygcheck knows how to properly follow symlinks (and a patch has already been posted to get it closer in that regards), then the check will actually find /usr/bin/vi. Until then, it is still a useful check, as POSIX requires other programs, such as more, to use vi as their default editor. Some people install a non-cygwin vi in some other location, then wonder why cygwin programs behave oddly when using the non-cygwin vi they have installed. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
