Re: Can console vim be run inside mintty?

On Feb 20, 5:20 pm, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
>   On Windows XP, I can run a bash shell inside Microsoft's "dos"
>   terminal;  and, from this bash shell, I can run console
>   vim.exe.
>
>   I also run the bash shell from inside MSYS-based mintty
>  http://code.google.com/p/mintty/.  However, nothing happens
>   after issuing the vim.exe command from this setup.  I can run
>   cmd.exe inside mintty;  but cannot run vim.exe from here
>   either.
>
>   Is it possible to run console vim inside mintty?

No. You'll need the MSYS version of vim, which assuming you've got
mingw-get you can install with 'mingw-get install msys-vim'. See
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for the reasons.

Andy

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