Re: Editing C with...

[Rich Healey <richo@psychotik.info>]

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Emilio Perea wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
>> for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista.
>>
>> running "edit" in cmd or powershell, gives,
>>
>> |===================================
>> |16 bit MS-DS Subsytem           |x|
>> |===================================
>> |
>> |Windows PowerShell
>> |NTVDM has encountered a system Error
>> |The Specified service does not exist
>> |Choose Close to Terminate the application
>> =================================
>> |Close | Ignore |
>> |==================================
> 
> Although I've never had to deal with Vista, previous versions of Windows
> had a "Resource Kit" available which includes vi.  With some Vista
> versions you can install SUA (Subsystem for UNIX Applications) which
> includes tcsh and ksh with vi (packages for vim, emacs and other editors
> are also available).  Even with straight Windows it makes no sense to
> use Microsoft's shells when JPSoft's are available. 
> 
> 
> 
i'm installed the subsystem for unix, always wondered what it actually
does..

Anyway, i use gvim for editing on windows (i use vista in a vm for work).

I'm going to have a look for this now (I saw that a package with unix in
it's name ages ago that seemed to imply it'd run ELF binaries, but it
didn't so i gave up).
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