[posted and mailed -- sorry, no Subject: in 1st sending, this is re-sent to Rui and the Cygwin List] Re: ANNOUNCE: mrxvt - a tabbed rxvt hack for Win32 (in development) On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:29:36, Rui Carmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I've been hacking together a "multiple" rxvt (essentially a tabbed > window holder that lets you switch between multiple rxvt windows). Sounds REAL good. > The project page is at > > http://na-cama.com/rcarmo/index.php/Projects/mrxvt > > And even though it is not available (yet), I'd like to have some > feedback on it (essentially food for thought). I'd also like to know > if anywone is working on: > > - porting screen to Cygwin (it compiles great, but installation needs > a lot of tweaking) > - a "full" tabbed terminal that runs in Win32 (using W11, like rxvt). > There's been discussion of that recently on the Cygwin List. See the bottom of this msg for a pasted copy of the first article i have in that thread. BTW I do not know what "W11" is. Maybe most rxvt users do, I have only recently been using rxvt sometimes. Also please note this recommendation re: > Please reply to me directly, since I am not subscribed to the list (my > mail traffic simply cannot cope with another mailing-list...) IMHO you should be reading (subscribed to) the Cygwin List, Rui. For one thing it is of course a breach of standard List netiquette to ask for help or post a proposal for discussion and then ask for off-list replies. Netiquette aside, there's a practical reason. Suppose, as could very well happen, that in 3 weeks somebody reads this List and comes across your message, and this someone knows something that might help you or might pertain to your project. They might even know a little thing that will help you break through a deadlock you find yourself in. But this person is busy and thinks to themselves "I don't know who Rui has heard from [off-List], probably he's got all the input he needs by now, I won't answer this...". You lose. I understand your problem with List traffic, I have long struggled with same. I have the solution for you. Go to www.gmane.org (the Gmane project) and set up Gmane server in your favorite NNTP news reader software. Subscribe to the Cygwin List as one of the Newsgroups (psuedo-newsgroups we might say, actually) once you have downloaded the long list of available ng's. Pay careful attention to Gmane FAQs and instructions. Set your newsreader if possible to use a custom header field "Archive:" with value "encrypt" particularly. (On Windows, "Xnews" does fine). This protects your email address from spammer harvesting; you MUST use your valid, unmunged email addy to post to Gmane ng's (contrary to popular practice on open USENET ng's). IMHO any project which brings more powerful or stable, and flexible terminal - console choices to Cygwin can add significant value to Cygwin. Your project sounds like it has good potential. I hope you get the help you need from wherever, and I hope you follow my recommendation and subscribe to the Cygwin List using Gmane so that everyone here can follow your progress and learn if they care to. Regards, Soren A --------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Rafael Kitover" <caelum -AT- debian -DOT- org> Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Screen for cygwin Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:40:27 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c27b7c$0ebd3fc0$b900a8c0@CAELUM> > My version of screen for cygwin, which I actually finished putting > together a month ago is here: > > http://www.io.com/~rkitover/screen-3.9.13.tar.gz > > It will configure and compile on cygwin with no tweaking. It will > support detach and attach, however the terminal size issue is still > there and I haven't managed to find a workaround. I tried to get these > changes merged upstream but haven't received any sort of response yet. I > probably need to make a cleaner patch. For now if you're interested in > screen please feel free to use this! > > -- > Rafael -- http://fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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/
