I think it bears repeating -- on Windows with Cygwin, edit PATH to remove unfriendly characters like '(' (I'm looking at at you, C:\Windows\Program Files (x86)).

At least for me, this wasn't an obvious problem either...

I've released v1.30 of pmtools (Perl Module Tools) with these changes:

Purdue's Course Signals provides instructors with an early-warning system for students who are struggling or otherwise in trouble in their courses. And it works! Possibly the coolest piece of educational technology I've seen in quite a while.

Just as you can edit a macro in Vim by pasting it to a buffer and editing the pasted text (then yanking the edited text into the macro register), you can create a Vim macro by yanking (J. Random) text into a register then executing that register as a macro.

(This makes it easy to play the home game, "Gee, I wonder what this line noise would do in Vim?")