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Re: Any cygwin32 users out there?
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Fri, 5 May 2000 00:15:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Susan Hoover writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Sproaticus wrote:
Does anyone use cygwin32 (GNU compiler and utils on Win32 platform)
for anything?  I gotta buncha "how the hell did you configure this"
Q's I might want to bounce off your head, mostly re: bash and
readline...
Erm, did you ever get a "yes" from anyone?  We're using cygwin32 here
at work, but beyond setting it up once and then running stuff in it
every day, I don't know much about configuring it.

Actually, you have the honor of being the first to reply!  :-,

Do you remember what questions you had, 10 months ago?  ;-)

Yeah.  And they still stand.  :-,

Mainly, I was trying to figure out how to get Bash to recognize my .inputrc;
specifically, how to get Bash to set editing-mode to vi.  IOW, I had to learn
emacs mode to access any readline features.  >:-P  >:-P  >:-P  ack.  *spit*

AFAIK, it's a bug in the Cygwin port, and hasn't been fixed yet.

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: Any cygwin32 users out there?
 
(...) Wow, you're right. I just tried all combinations of locations of .inputrc [c:\, c:\bash, c:\users\default] with all combinations of stuff in .inputrc ["set editing-mode vi"[1], "set vi-editing-mode"[2], "set vi-editing-mode on", "set (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Any cygwin32 users out there?
 
(...) Erm, did you ever get a "yes" from anyone? We're using cygwin32 here at work, but beyond setting it up once and then running stuff in it every day, I don't know much about configuring it. Do you remember what questions you had, 10 months ago? (...) (24 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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