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Re: Any cygwin32 users out there?
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Fri, 5 May 2000 16:14:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Susan Hoover writes:
However, you can still use this command to switch into vi editing mode:
  set -o vi
And this *does* work.

D'oh!  'Scuse me while I yank out more of my hair...  :-,

It's pretty much in the past now; I've given up on Cygwin.  I discovered that
MKS Toolkit offers a *lot* of POSIX command-line functionality that we needed
on our project, and I never really needed the POSIX libs (except for crypt()
every now and then).  My employer had no issue with getting me an MKS license,
either.

And that was before I re-wrote everything in Perl, anyway.

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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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