Hassan said:
I want to practise using the vi editor in Linux on my Vista.
Are there tools within vista that can make me edit files like i was using
a vi editor or do I need to download some tool ?
Hi Hassan,
Which edition of Vista do you have?
If you have Vista Enterprise or Ultimate, you can install the optional
"Subsystem for Unix Applications" (SUA). This is under Control Panel,
Programs and Features, Turn Windows Features On or Off. After you have
installed SUA on Vista, then download the "Utilities and SDK for SUA" from
Microsoft.com (the download URL is in the Start menu, after you install
SUA).
The SUA Utilities include vi, as well as all the standard Unix/Posix tools
like ls, cat, sed, awk, etc. There is also the gcc compiler, so you can
compile and run a wide range of open source Unix software on your Vista box.
You can also download SUA binaries and source code for many popular
Linux/Unix apps on Vista, from
www.interopsystems.com - Apache, PostgreSQL,
OpenSSL, Squid etc - it's all there.
Unfortunately, SUA is not available for Home or Business editions of Vista.
If you have one of these editions, you can try using Vim, a very popular vi
clone (see
www.vim.org). A Win32 version is availabel. In fact several Unix
distributions are now shipping vim as the standard editor, in place of the
classic vi (because vim has many useful extra features).
Hope this helps,
