How do I install the vi text editor ONLY on my Cygwin installation?
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I have managed to install the Cygwin on my Windows Vista machine. I installed using the default settings. When I try to do in the Bash shell, Bash tells me command not found. I believe I need to install the Cygwin editors package which include the vi editor. The nightmare is every time I run the Cy…
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There is a reason Cygwin also selects those other packages: vi (vim) depends on them. If you really don't like this, you'll have to build/find a statically linked version of vim, or just use a different version altogether, e.g. download the Windows …
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