Mastering Vim

Using Cygwin

Open Cygwin, the program will be called Cygwin64 Terminal or Cygwin Terminal, depending on the version of your system, as can be seen in the following screenshot:

Open it! You will see the following prompt, familiar to Linux users:

Cygwin supports all of the Unix-style commands we will be using in this book. This book will also say if any commands need to be changed to work with Cygwin. But for now, let's open Vim and proceed onto the next chapter! Type vim and hit Enter to start Vim, as demonstrated in the following screenshot: ...