vi and terminal behaviour

Hi there, I have been using both the default Cygwin shell and rxvt for a while. I seem to have some trouble getting the terminal emulators to behave correctly (i.e. as it does under Linux). When I edit a file using vi and use the "cw" key sequence to change a word, the expected outcome is for th

Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

Hi there, After some discussion with Matt Wozniski I've come to the conclusion that the default global config file for vim (/usr/share/vim/vimrc) included with Cygwin differs quite importantly from the ones included in other UNIX-like operating systems like Linux or Mac OS X (and yes, I know Cy

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 10:48:35 AM Subject: Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin On Dec 4 14:29, Carles Cufi wrote: > Hi there, > > After some discussion with Matt Wozniski I've come to the conclusion that the > default global config file for vi

sed: --binary flag is undocumented

Hi there, I just found out in the IRC channel that to avoid trouble with cygwin's sed turning \r\n into \n one needs to pass the "--binary" flag. But this is not documented in the sed man pages, I was wondering if it should be. Thanks! -- Carles -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble