Using your Windows box as an X terminal

[robkeeney]

So I have to develop on a *nix box through a Windows desktop PC. Plain terminal emulation is no fun (who wants to develop in vi?). Through the magic of open source, I don't have to and neither do you! Here are the simple steps to follow:

1. Install Cygwin including Cygwin/X - download the installer, make sure the xinit package is selected in the things

Comments

[jmcphers]

Nice.

I actually do my development work in vim, though, and I don't even use *nix. :-)

[robkeeney]

vim's fine for light work, but I wouldn't want to try to develop a big project with it, let alone try to maintain one written by someone else. Dev Studio's call graph analysis is a Godsend when you're trying to figure out a big code base.

[jmcphers]

I work an extremely big project, actually. I use ctags to navigate through the codebase. Tried it?

[robkeeney]

A long time ago, I used it. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just sayin' it's not how I want to do it.