On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:52:17AM -0500, John Peacock wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>The problem is that we'll be switching the "I need a scrollbar!"s with >>the "Where is the output from <some random windows command>?". >> >>cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I >>don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason. > >I was not aware of this limitation. Is this something we should be >working on or is it a known-lost-cause-due-to-Redmond-stupidity issue.
The basic problem is that a cygwin pty is a pipe and some windows apps don't like having their input/output redirected to pipes. rxvt already has some workarounds for this but they aren't foolproof. >>It is so frighteningly trivial to change this that I don't really see a >>big deal here. The basic problem is that people think that cygwin is a >>standard inscrutable windows app with no way to control their >>environment if it isn't an option in setup.exe. >> >>Maybe that's what needs to go into the FAQ: "You have the power!" > >Maybe Gerrit's idea of having a commented rxvt line in cygwin.bat could >be extended to comment the rxvt line itself as well. This way, the FAQ >could simple say "If you don't like the (lame) DOS-box window, edit the >cygwin.bat file and uncomment the rxvt line for another kind of >terminal session." Sounds like it's time for the old "patches gratefully inspected" procedure. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
