On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 6:04 AM Marco Atzeri wrote:
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> On 20/12/2023 03:47, Beau James via Cygwin wrote:
> > This problem appeared with my most recent Cygwin update that included an
> > update to "vim".
>
> vi is usually an alias to vim
>
> $ alias | grep vi
>
> alias vi='vim'
>
> so you are in
On 2023-12-17 22:22, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> It would be nice if someone from the Cygwin authors could assist me in
> figuring out why this happens.
Cygwin is famously slow; this is nothing new. We are grateful
for Cygwin because it makes stuff work at all; if it were blazing
fast that wou
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 9:01 AM marco atzeri wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 6:04 AM Marco Atzeri wrote:
> >
> > On 20/12/2023 03:47, Beau James via Cygwin wrote:
> > > This problem appeared with my most recent Cygwin update that included an
> > > update to "vim".
> >
> > vi is usually an alias
> Would you please let me know how to make an /etc/alternatives for vi/vim?
did you install the alternatives package? I just use aliases (actually I set
EDITOR=xxx) after I enumerate the editors I consider worthy of inclusion and
resident. What DOES need nuking is the forced alias in /etc/profile
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 1:57 PM matthew patton wrote:
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> > Would you please let me know how to make an /etc/alternatives for vi/vim?
>
> did you install the alternatives package?
I installed cygwin back in 2017; I don't remember what all I've
installed but it seems to be there:
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/
On 12/20/2023 1:34 PM, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 9:01 AM marco atzeri wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 6:04 AM Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 20/12/2023 03:47, Beau James via Cygwin wrote:
This problem appeared with my most recent Cygwin update that included an
update to "vim".
> I'd say vi/vim needs to be put under /etc/alternatives
No, because that's system-wide.
Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting multiple
versions. Say v8.02 versus v9.1 of 'vim' on a system, one being in /usr/bin and
the other in /usr/local/bin just as an example.
On 2023-12-20 12:30, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
I'd say vi/vim needs to be put under /etc/alternatives
No, because that's system-wide.
Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting multiple
versions. Say v8.02 versus v9.1 of 'vim' on a system, one being in /usr/bin
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 02:23:49PM -0500, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
> If anyone has access to a redhat linux system, do they 'alias vi=vim'
> or put vi under /etc/alternatives?
FYI: neither.
$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine)
$ cat /usr/bin/vi
#!/usr/bin/sh
# run vim if:
# -
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:24 PM Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
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> On 12/20/2023 1:34 PM, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 9:01 AM marco atzeri wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 6:04 AM Marco Atzeri wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 20/12/2023 03:47, Beau James via Cygwin wrote:
> T
>> No, because that's system-wide.
>> Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting multiple
> Most of us run Cygwin on a device called a /Personal Computer/ that allows us
> to
> make our own choices about OS, desktop UI, services, and configuration. ;^>
yeah, yeah I know
> I've got "export EDITOR=vi" in my .bash_profile, so anytime $EDITOR is
> called I want the huge version of vim.
Then set EDITOR=
If you want to cheat and only use 'vi' then you need to walk the dependency
chain and/or search_for_binary mechanism employed by the SHELL to find the
correct target.
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:30 PM matthew patton wrote:
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> > I'd say vi/vim needs to be put under /etc/alternatives
>
> No, because that's system-wide.
Which is what I want.
> Vi vs Vim is a personal choice.
Which I've made :)
Anyone that doesn't like that decision can make their own work-aroun
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:44 PM Brian Inglis wrote:
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> On 2023-12-20 12:30, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
> >> I'd say vi/vim needs to be put under /etc/alternatives
>
> > No, because that's system-wide.
> > Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting multiple
> > versio
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:45 PM gs-cygwin wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 02:23:49PM -0500, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
> > If anyone has access to a redhat linux system, do they 'alias vi=vim'
> > or put vi under /etc/alternatives?
>
> FYI: neither.
Wow! I would have never guessed 'wrapper script'
I dug around in the Cygwin doc looking for details on how /dev/random
and /dev/urandom are implemented, but came up empty. Is this
documented anywhere?
Thanks
--
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On 12/20/2023 7:32 PM, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote:
I dug around in the Cygwin doc looking for details on how /dev/random
and /dev/urandom are implemented, but came up empty. Is this
documented anywhere?
Writing a simple program and then watching where reading /dev/random
goes using gdb sugg
On 2023-12-20 12:47, matthew patton wrote:
No, because that's system-wide.
Vi vs Vim is a personal choice. Also alternatives is for supporting
multiple
Most of us run Cygwin on a device called a /Personal Computer/ that allows
us to make our own choices about OS, desktop UI, services, and
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