Vim Tips Wiki
(Move categories to tip template)
(Move categories to tip template)
Line 9: Line 9:
 
|rating=24/11
 
|rating=24/11
 
|category1=Searching
 
|category1=Searching
|category2=
+
|category2=Windows <!-- Windows is in Integration -->
 
}}
 
}}
 
If you use Vim on Windows, and you wish you had some of those nifty UNIX command-line tools, but do not feel like installing all of Cygwin, you can get many of the most-used tools from Ron Aaron's web site: http://ronware.gotdns.com/vim.html
 
If you use Vim on Windows, and you wish you had some of those nifty UNIX command-line tools, but do not feel like installing all of Cygwin, you can get many of the most-used tools from Ron Aaron's web site: http://ronware.gotdns.com/vim.html
Line 35: Line 35:
   
 
----
 
----
[[Category:Windows]] <!-- Windows is in Integration -->
 

Revision as of 08:47, 25 April 2008

Tip 128 Printable Monobook Previous Next

created October 7, 2001 · complexity basic · author Benji Fisher · version 5.7


If you use Vim on Windows, and you wish you had some of those nifty UNIX command-line tools, but do not feel like installing all of Cygwin, you can get many of the most-used tools from Ron Aaron's web site: http://ronware.gotdns.com/vim.html

Since Ron is a big Vim fan (see http://www.mossbayeng.com/~ron/vim/vimrant.html ) you can count on these tools' working well with Vim. For some hints on how to use them, read

Other places to obtain these search tools

Comments

If you try these search tools, please add a further comment telling us which is (are) the most useful.


unixkit link is broken.