Have you tried Cygwin vim in mintty? Also, Emacs has a mode where it'll run as a Cygwin process, but use native win32 widgets. I've found using it to be the m

Have you tried Cygwin vim in mintty? Also, Emacs has a mode where it'll run as a Cygwin process, but use native win32 widgets. I've found using it to be the most pleasant way of interacting with Windows systems. When I was at Microsoft, I joked that I wasn't so much running "Windows" as GNU/NT. :-)